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MOVING ON
I no longer post here (except as mirrors of my website). If you'd like to keep up:
Please check out my website & blog: jeanhuets.com (You can also friend me on Facebook there.)
Please also visit our company, Circling Rivers, an independent publisher of Americana: poetry, fiction & nonfiction ( Read more... ) -
New York Times Disunion articles by Jean Huets
Originally published at Leaves of Grass. You can comment here or there.
Civil War articles (New York Times) by Jean Huets: A Black Correspondent at the Front | The Iron Brigade | The Union Dead | Blood in the Carolina Hills | The Fall Line’s Fault | Boxers, Briefs and Battles | Killing Time: Playing Cards in the Civil War
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Whitman - Song of Myself 1881 PDF
Originally published at Leaves of Grass. You can comment here or there.
I made this 1881 edition “Song of Myself” PDF to print out for the Every Atom on-line course. (I’m experimenting with reading the poem on an e-reader as well as studying a hard copy.)
- My New York Times / Disunion article The Union Dead includes quotes from Whitman’s Memoranda ( Read more... ) -
Walt Whitman’s Sermon
Originally published at Leaves of Grass. You can comment here or there.
W. asked Corning [candidate for the pulpit of the Unitarian church on Benson street]: “And what may be the subject of your sermon tomorrow?”My subject? Why-the tragedy of the ages.” “And what may be the tragedy of the ages?” “The crucifixion.” “What crucifixion?” “The ( Read more... ) -
The Mexican War
Originally published at Leaves of Grass. You can comment here or there.
The Mexican War, though only two years long, weighs heavily among the direct causes of the American Civil War. The new territories won by the United States raised new tensions over the bounds of slavery. The Mexican War also nourished ambitions for a generation of military ( Read more... ) -
Whitman’s father & House Framing in the Mid-19th Century
Originally published at Leaves of Grass. You can comment here or there.
A line in Walt Whitman’s poem (today known as) “I Sing the Body Electric” appeared only in the first (untitled) 1855 edition:
Framers bare-armed framing a house . . hoisting the beams in their places . . or using the mallet and mortising-chisel
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Nineteenth-century underwear (men’s)
Originally published at Leaves of Grass. You can comment here or there.
Please visit my New York Times Disunion article on Civil War (men’s) underwear, the basics on their form and manufacturing, laundering and lice, and soldiers’ not always orthodox ways of procurement.
Following are some extras.
At the Gaines Mill Living History weekend in July, ( Read more... )
