University of Nebraska, Lincoln (Lincoln, NE 68588-0007)
Matt Cohen (Project Director: July 2016 to March 2021)
PW-253797-17
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Preservation and Access
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Totals:
$126,301 (approved)
$120,273 (awarded)
Grant period:
1/1/2018 – 12/31/2019
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Walt Whitman's Annotations
The addition of 1,400 new documents, updates to
the database of Whitman’s reading, and creation of curated theme portals for
the Walt Whitman Archive.
America's most famous poet, Walt Whitman, left behind an
unusual and extraordinary collection of marginalia and annotations. This
hitherto uncollected and largely unpublished set of extraordinarily diverse and
sophisticated documents shows America's most famous poet in-the-making. With
NEH support, we published 800 pages of these documents in 2015, and for the
first time, by way of the freely accessible Walt Whitman Archive, students,
scholars, and casual readers are now able to explore Whitman's self-education,
through his reactions to the literature, history, science, theology, and art of
his time. Having achieved our goals for that grant, we now apply for NEH funding
to preserve and give free public electronic access to more of Walt Whitman's
manuscript annotations. We apply for two years of implementation funding to
publish 1400 more pages of documents, update our database of Whitman's reading,
and create curated thematic subsections to draw more attention to the project.
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