The American poet Walt Whitman gave a lecture on Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, several times between 1879 and 1890. The lecture centered on Lincoln's assassination, but als
An advertisement for Whitman's Lincoln lecture in Camden, New Jersey (1887). It includes the false claim that "Whitman was at the Theatre when Lincoln was assassinated".
An announcement of the lecture at Madison Square Theatre
A ticket to a delivery of the lecture
Walt Whitman, steel engraving, July 1854
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David S. Reynolds is an American literary critic, biographer, and historian who has written about American literature and culture. He is the author or editor of fifteen books, on the Civil War era—inc
