JUST GETTING STARTED. WHITMAN-HANSON HIGH SCHOOLERS WALKING OUT THIS MORNING PROTESTING AFTER 23 DISTRICT EMPLOYEES WERE GIVEN PINK SLIPS FRIDAY NIGHT, INCLUDING FIVE TEACHERS AND 11 PARAPROFESSIONALS ...

A year after taking the helm of eBay in 1998, Meg Whitman made what she called one of her biggest blunders—missing out on the huge Internet market in Japan. In an interview with CNBC, Whitman said the ...

“But for the opera, I could never have written Leaves of Grass,” Walt Whitman said late in life. That line is the opening salvo in Matthew Aucoin’s program notes to “Crossing,” an opera that he ...

Walt Whitman is born to Louisa and Walter Whitman in Huntington Township on Long Island, New York. He is the second of eight surviving children. His father will struggle to support the family as a ...

This year we celebrate the two-hundredth birthday of Walt Whitman; and by “we” I mean all of us who take conscious pleasure in speaking American English. Whitman invented a poetry specific to this ...

Walt Whitman captured the essence of American democracy, individualism, and human connection in verses that remain startlingly relevant more than a century after his death, demonstrating how genuine ...

In 1860, writing the third of six editions of his book “Leaves of Grass,” behemoth of American poetry Walt Whitman proclaimed what would follow him. “I announce greater offspring, orators, days, and ...

Journalist, critic and feminist Margaret Fuller wrote an essay in 1846 entitled “American Literature; Its Position in the Present Time, and Prospects for the Future.” Its first line read, “Some ...

Stuart Whitman, a star of Westerns alongside John Wayne like “The Comancheros” and the war movie “The Longest Day,” died in his home Monday, his son told TMZ. Whitman was 92. “Old Hollywood lost ...

Editor’s Note: Karen Karbiener is a Walt Whitman scholar who teaches at New York University. Her works include an edition of “Leaves of Grass,” a book introducing children to Whitman’s poetry, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The town of Whitman is celebrating 150 years. The Whitman 150 Years Committee has organized two more events in June to wrap up the ...

The series stars Mae Whitman, Jane Seymour, and Mary McDonnell. OK, but what really happened in that cave? The water bender was the emotional anchor of Team Avatar. 'The Twelve Dates of Christmas' ...