Monday, August 18, 2008
Leaves of Grass

The Walt Whitman Archive is an electronic research and teaching tool co-directed by University of Iowa faculty member Ed Folsom. Recently, the archive received grants to edit Walt Whitman's Civil War writings. Funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) will support editorial work on Whitman's incoming and outgoing correspondence. Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will support editorial work on Whitman's Civil War notebooks, daybooks, literary essays, journalism, poetry manuscripts and the so-called Blue Book (a personally annotated copy of Leaves of Grass that cost him his government job). Ken Price, Folsom's co-director, has received an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Digital Innovation Award to support his role in these editorial efforts.