The Walt Whitman Archive

The Journal of American History, in collaboration with the Web site History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web,http://www.historymatters.gmu.edu, publishes regular reviews of Web sites. The reviews appear both in the printed journal and at History Matters. History Matters provides an annotated guide to more than one thousand Web sites for teaching U.S. history. The goal is to offer a gateway to the best sites and to summarize their strengths and weaknesses with particular attention to their utility for teachers. The Web site reviews are edited by Kelly Schrum. Please contact Jeffrey McClurken at [email protected] if you would like to suggest a site for review or write a review. We also welcome comments on our review guidelines, available at http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/submit/websitereviews.html. “I am large, I contain multitudes,” wrote Walt Whitman in his poem “Song of Myself” (1855). It is a statement with which anyone who has studied this great and protean poet can easily agree. Whitman (1919–1892) has fascinated generations of historians, his long life and large body of work intimately connecting with every important event and movement in the nineteenth-century United States. His poetry is an invaluable resource but also an exceptionally tricky one: his masterpiece Leaves of Grass, in which “Song of Myself” originally appeared, was released in multiple editions over his lifetime, growing and changing with every iteration. The poem that a historian quotes may be very different from the poem read by Whitman's contemporaries

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