The 1872 edition spread these Civil War poems throughout the book, suggesting that the war formed an essential part of the American character. In 1881 Whitman was 62 years old and contemplating ...

Poems can promote understanding by taking us behind enemy lines. Threatening to boycott anyone's art or literature will only ...

Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil ... Taps, poems inspired by the war, when Lincoln was assassinated. Whitman was devastated. Just as the book was ...

When Ephriam David Tyler died in 1969 at age 85, he had written and published his way through three works of poetry that ...

She will present her book "I Brought the War with ... to anyone going through a break-up. In some poems, Olds’s divorce ...

Urdahl started telling Minnesota’s story in his book, “Three Paths to Glory,” which was published in 2015. In it, Urdahl focused on Minnesota regiments from the beginning of the American Civil War to ...