Search Strategies & Selected Articles

The links below provide access to a sampling of articles from historic newspapers that can be found in Chronicling America. You can further explore the topic of "Walt Whitman" using the following search strategies:

Use the following terms in combination, proximity, or as a phrase:
Walt Whitman, Jack Engle, Good Gray Poet, poems, Leaves of Grass, William Douglas O'Connor, Robert Ingersoll, My Captain, Camden
It is important to use a specific date range if looking for articles for a particular event in order to narrow your results. To narrow your results for this topic, search between 1852 and 1925.

Selected Articles from Chronicling America

"Life and Adventures of Jack Engle [Chapters I-IV]"
Sunday Dispatch (New York, NY) March 14, 1852, Image 1, col. 1-3.
""Characters" In New York - The Book Trade, & c"
Nashville Daily Patriot (Nashville, TN), May 14, 1856, Image 2, col. 4.
"America's First Distinctive Poem"
New-York Tribune (New York, NY), April 24, 1860, Image 1, col. 3.
"America's Laureate: A Sort of Autobiography"
National Republican (Washington, DC), July 28, 1875, Image 1, col. 1-2.
"Walt Whitman on Carlyle"
Lancaster Daily Intelligencer (Washington, DC), February 21, 1881, Image 1, col. 4.
"Walt Whitman: Remarkable Defense of His Book"
National Republican (Washington City, DC), May 27, 1882, Page 6, Image 6, col. 5-6.
"Walt Whitman"
Sacramento Daily Record-Union (Sacramento, CA), June 3, 1882, Image 4, col. 2-3.
"The Good Gray Poet Is White Now"
The Sun (New York, NY), April 15, 1887, Image 1, col. 4.
"Hearty Cheers for Whitman, He Speaks on Abraham Lincoln"
New-York Tribune (New York, NY), April 15, 1887, Page 5, Image 5, col. 2.
"Good Gray Poet, Walt Whitman's Seventieth Birthday is Celebrated To-Day"
The Evening World (New York, NY), May 31, 1889, Extra 2 O'Clock, Page 2, Image 2, col. 5.
"Walt Whitman"
The Daily Critic (Washington, DC), October 22, 1890, Image 1, col. 2-4.
"Good Gray Poet"
The Evening Bulletin (Maysville, KY), October 22, 1890, Image 1, col. 2.
"Peacefully at Rest"
The Evening Bulletin (Maysville, KY), March 28, 1892, Image 1, col. 2-5.
"Walt Whitman, The Venerable Poet Joins the Silent Majority"
The Record-Union (Sacramento, CA), March 28, 1892, Image 1, col. 4.
"Ingersoll's Eulogy"
Pittsburg Dispatch (Pittsburg, PA), March 31, 1892, Page 7, Image 7, col. 1-2.
"Personal Recollections of Whitman"
The Washington Times (New York, NY), October 5, 1902, Editorials the Drama and Society, Page 10, Image 26, col. 1-7.
"The Woman Who Took Care of a Genius"
New-York Tribune (New York, NY), June 18, 1922, Image 57, col. 1-6.

Walt Whitman: Topics in Chronicling America

Search Strategies & Selected Articles

Selected Articles from Chronicling America