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Archive for the “Walt Whitman” Category

• Literature of the U.S. Civil War
  Posted May 16, 2011 by Maggie Kopp

  2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil War.  Special Collections has a variety of archival and rare book collections related to the war, including original letters and photographs, print histories, pamphlets, and other documents and print sources created during the Civil War (1861-1865). The Rare Literature Collections contain many examples [...]

• New acquisitions for American authors collections
  Posted March 21, 2011 by Maggie Kopp

  Special Collections has comprehensive collections of printed works by and about American authors Louisa May Alcott, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman.  These are some of the newest critical and biographical works we have acquired for these collections: Richard Francis, Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia (2010) Susan Cheever, Louisa May Alcott (2010) [...]

• Literary Worlds: Illumination of the Mind
  Posted August 19, 2010 by Kristi Young

  Authors from the Victorian era to modern times are highlighted including Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Arthur Conan Doyle, Orson F. Whitney, Orson Scott Card, Zane Grey, Leslie Norris and Jessica Day George.

• Literary nurses
  Posted February 3, 2010 by Maggie Kopp

  In conjunction with the opening of the Florence Nightingale exhibit on Floor 3 of the HBLL, which features a number of rare books and manuscripts from Special Collections,  I’d like to highlight the work of  several authors who served as nurses in the American Civil War. Clara Barton was a Civil War nurse who was [...]

• New critical works on Walt Whitman
  Posted September 9, 2009 by Maggie Kopp

  The following scholarly monographs have recently been purchased for the Whitman Collection.   They are the newest additions to the hundreds of unique holdings by and about Whitman here at BYU Special Collections. Ronald Knapp, Of life immense: the prophetic vision of Walt Whitman.  Outskirts Press, 2008. A study of Whitman’s belief in universal religion. J. [...]

• New resources for the literary author collections
  Posted August 14, 2008 by Maggie Kopp

  BYU actively collects works by and about five British and American literary authors: William Wordsworth, Robert Burns, Herman Melville, Louisa May Alcott, and Walt Whitman. To help researchers better explore the contents of these collections, Special Collections is adding new resources to our website. Each of the pages for the five author collections will soon [...]