Widely considered the most influential and innovative poet of America, Walt Whitman was born in West Hills, a village near Hempstead, Long Island, on 31 May 1819 to Walter and Louisa Van Velsor Whitman. His father had been born just after the end of the...

"A great figure, the greatest assuredly in our literature—yet perhaps only a great childsumming up and transmitting into poetry all the passionate aspirations of an America that had passed through the romantic revolution, the poet of selfhood and t...

"A great figure, the greatest assuredly in our literature--yet perhaps only a great child--summing up and transmitting into poetry all the passionate aspirations of an America that had passed through the romantic revolution, the poet of selfhood and the...

Tomorrow marks the 140th anniversary of the Battle of Kelly's Ford. The encounter on the Rappahannock River was minor in terms of troops involved, about 2,900, and casualties, about 210. But for the first time in the Civil War, the Union cavalry proved...

Want to slip into the parking lot by the soccer field where your daughter has just kicked the winning goal and not be identified by the minivan you are driving? Do I have the car for you. You can step in low,...