The sport of lacrosse introduced itself to Franklin College junior Addie Whitman in a rather unconventional way.

A year after taking the helm of eBay in 1998, Meg Whitman made what she called one of her biggest blunders—missing out on the huge Internet market in Japan. In an interview with CNBC, Whitman said the ...

“But for the opera, I could never have written Leaves of Grass,” Walt Whitman said late in life. That line is the opening salvo in Matthew Aucoin’s program notes to “Crossing,” an opera that he ...

Walt Whitman captured the essence of American democracy, individualism, and human connection in verses that remain startlingly relevant more than a century after his death, demonstrating how genuine ...

Walt Whitman is born to Louisa and Walter Whitman in Huntington Township on Long Island, New York. He is the second of eight surviving children. His father will struggle to support the family as a ...

In 1860, writing the third of six editions of his book “Leaves of Grass,” behemoth of American poetry Walt Whitman proclaimed what would follow him. “I announce greater offspring, orators, days, and ...

This week Page-Turner is publishing a series on Walt Whitman. Previously, Jia Tolentino wrote about an unusual use of Whitman’s poetry at a drug court in Alabama, and Dan Piepenbring wrote on ...

I didn’t spend a lot of time thinking about as a woman how I would manage differently – I was just happy to be managing. President and CEO, Hewlett-Packard Born: Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., Aug. 4, 1956 ...

"I cut just about every single department in some way," Whitman Town Administrator Mary Beth Carter said of the new plan to ...

Sticking to the script wasn’t a rule on the set of Parenthood. The people behind the show liked to have the option for the ensemble to improvise. “I like to leave room for improvisation,” Jason Katims ...

Editor’s Note: Karen Karbiener is a Walt Whitman scholar who teaches at New York University. Her works include an edition of “Leaves of Grass,” a book introducing children to Whitman’s poetry, and ...