17th Annual Lincoln Lecture

When Lilacs Last Bloomed:
Reflections 150 Years After Lincoln's Assassination

A Musical Presentation of the Lincoln Poems of Walt Whitman

Read by Robert Gibby Brand,
Famed Kansas City actor and singer

Monday, February 16th
7 PM
Xavier Theatre

Presented by

University of Saint Mary
and
Country Club Bank

For more information call 913-758-6329
or email shultz35@stmary.edu

Lincoln and Whitman
Essay by David S. Reynolds about the relationship between Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln's Death
Commentary essay by Gregory Eiselein from the Walt Whitman Archive
Civil War Washington
Civil War Washington allows users to study, visualize, and theorize the complex changes in the city of Washington, DC between 1860 and 1865 through a collection of datasets, images, texts, and maps.
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Published by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska--Lincoln and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Nebraska--Lincoln.
Walt Whitman--Poet of the Nation
Whitman worked out lists of expressions for grief, suffering, and compassion to help formulate his poems of the Civil War.
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Online component from the Library of Congress Exhibit Revising Himself--Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass