May 25, 2005 at noon
Co-curators Alice Birney (MSS) and Barbara Bair (MSS) led a tour of the exhibition within the American Treasures gallery.
May 31, 2005 at noon
Television and radio personality Robert
Aubry Davis read from Leaves of Grass to mark Whitman's
birthday, May 31, 1819.
Pickford Theater, third floor of
the Library's James Madison Building.
September 14, 2005 at noon
A gallery talk by curator Barbara
Bair examined Whitman's life in Washington during
the Civil War.
In the exhibition within the American Treasures gallery.
September 21, 2005 at noon
A gallery talk by curator Alice Birney explored the evolution of Leaves of Grass
In the exhibition
within the American Treasures gallery.
November 3, 2005 at noon
Whitman and Place symposium with Joann
Krieg, Hofstra University; Ten Genoways, University of Virginia;
and William Pannapacker, Hope College speaking on “Walt Whitman
in New York,” “Whitman and the Civil War,” and “Whitman
in Camden-Philadelphia.”
Pickford Theater, third floor of
the Library's James Madison Building.