Kenneth M. Price, Hillegass University Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has co-directed The Walt Whitman Archive since 1995. He is a founding co-director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at Nebraska. His previous books include Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in His Century (Yale, 1990); To Walt Whitman, America (North Carolina, 2004) and, with co-author Ed Folsom, Re-Scripting Walt Whitman (Blackwell, 2005). He has served as President of both the Society for Textual Scholarship and the Association for Documentary Editing.

• Preface 1: Whitman, Washington, and the Convulsiveness of Civil War 2: Whitman as a Paradoxical 'Missionary to the Wounded' 3: Strayed Cattle: Anti-Pastoralism in Whitman's War Writings 4: Social Calamity, Personal Perturbations, and Office Decorum: How Leaves of Grass Grew Pensive 5: Multi-racial Democracy and Black Democratic Vistas Works Cited

The virtue of Whitman in Washington is that it keeps tensions in place, and plumbs paradox, palpably wrestling with the legacy of Whitman in the moment and calling us to our own reckoning of him and his work for the future.

Kenneth M. Price, Hillegass University Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has co-directed The Walt Whitman Archive since 1995. He is a founding co-director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at Nebraska. His previous books include Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in His Century (Yale, 1990); To Walt Whitman, America (North Carolina, 2004) and, with co-author Ed Folsom, Re-Scripting Walt Whitman (Blackwell, 2005). He has served as President of both the Society for Textual Scholarship and the Association for Documentary Editing.

• Preface 1: Whitman, Washington, and the Convulsiveness of Civil War 2: Whitman as a Paradoxical 'Missionary to the Wounded' 3: Strayed Cattle: Anti-Pastoralism in Whitman's War Writings 4: Social Calamity, Personal Perturbations, and Office Decorum: How Leaves of Grass Grew Pensive 5: Multi-racial Democracy and Black Democratic Vistas Works Cited

The virtue of Whitman in Washington is that it keeps tensions in place, and plumbs paradox, palpably wrestling with the legacy of Whitman in the moment and calling us to our own reckoning of him and his work for the future.

Kenneth M. Price, Hillegass University Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has co-directed The Walt Whitman Archive since 1995. He is a founding co-director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at Nebraska. His previous books include Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in His Century (Yale, 1990); To Walt Whitman, America (North Carolina, 2004) and, with co-author Ed Folsom, Re-Scripting Walt Whitman (Blackwell, 2005). He has served as President of both the Society for Textual Scholarship and the Association for Documentary Editing.

• Preface 1: Whitman, Washington, and the Convulsiveness of Civil War 2: Whitman as a Paradoxical 'Missionary to the Wounded' 3: Strayed Cattle: Anti-Pastoralism in Whitman's War Writings 4: Social Calamity, Personal Perturbations, and Office Decorum: How Leaves of Grass Grew Pensive 5: Multi-racial Democracy and Black Democratic Vistas Works Cited

The virtue of Whitman in Washington is that it keeps tensions in place, and plumbs paradox, palpably wrestling with the legacy of Whitman in the moment and calling us to our own reckoning of him and his work for the future.