Jennifer Howard | The Chronicle | April 12, 2011
In Electric Discovery, Scholar Finds Trove of Walt Whitman Documents in National Archives
A huge collection of government documents handwritten by Walt Whitman when the poet was a federal clerk has been unearthed. The find, announced on Tuesday by the National Archives, gives scholars a detailed guide to the national and political issues-such as war crimes, voting rights, and westward expansion-that Whitman encountered in Washington during the Reconstruction era. The documents also bring to life an underappreciated side of the poet: his life and work as a bureaucrat.
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