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Alan Seeger

Seeger, Alan[1888-1916](1)Born in New York City, June 22, 1888. He spent his childhood upon Staten Island, where he was constantly in sight of the great steamships of all nations moving in…

William Gibbs McADOO, Congress, CA (1863-1941)

Senate Years of Service: 1933-1938 Party: Democrat McADOO William Gibbs , a Senator from California; born on a farm near Marietta, Cobb County, Ga., October 31, 1863; attended the rural schools and…

Walt Whitman: Years of the Modern

Years of the ModernYears of the modern! years of the unperform'd! Your horizon rises, I see it parting away for more august dramas, I see not America only, not only Liberty's nation but other…

Walt Whitman: Song of the Exposition, Part 7

Part 7Away with themes of war! away with war itself! Hence from my shuddering sight to never more return that show of blacken'd, mutilated corpses! That hell unpent and raid of blood, fit…

Savannah, city, United States

(Encyclopedia) Savannah, city (1990 pop. 137,560), seat of Chatham co., SE Ga., a port of entry on the Savannah River near its mouth; inc. 1789. A rail, fishing, and industrial center, it is a…

Walt Whitman: Salut au Monde!, Part 4

Part 4What do you see Walt Whitman? Who are they you salute, and that one after another salute you? I see a great round wonder rolling through space, I see diminute farms, hamlets, ruins,…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 42

Part 42A call in the midst of the crowd, My own voice, orotund sweeping and final.Come my children, Come my boys and girls, my women, household and intimates, Now the performer launches his…

Walt Whitman: A Broadway Pageant, Part 2

Part 2Superb-faced Manhattan! Comrade Americanos! to us, then at last the Orient comes. To us, my city, Where our tall-topt marble and iron beauties range on opposite sides, to walk in…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 33

Part 33Space and Time! now I see it is true, what I guess'd at, What I guess'd when I loaf'd on the grass, What I guess'd while I lay alone in my bed, And again as I walk'd the beach under…