Whitman sites:

• The Whitman Archive Main Index: This is the introductory page to the Walt Whitman Archive, which I co-direct with Kenneth M. Price of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Eventually all of Whitman's work will be included on this site, in addition to many materials about Whitman. Spend some time exploring this site.
  
  Whitman Bibliography: I maintain the bibliography which is available both on the Whitman Archive and on the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review website. This is a large searchable database containing nearly 10,000 entries of work about Whitman from the first things written on Whitman in the 1840s up to the present.
  
  
• Contemporary Reviews: This is part of the Whitman Archive, and this site includes all the contemporary reviews of Whitman's work, so you can get a good idea of how readers in the nineteenth century responded to his poetry.
  
  
• Whitman Photo Index: Again, this is part of the Whitman Archive. Here you can view all the photographic portraits of Whitman, arranged by decade. When you click on any individual photo, you will get a large version of the photo along with my annotations about that particular portrait. We are in the process of updating the portion of the site; it should soon contain better images and more extensive annotations.
  
  
• Whitman Notebooks: This is the great Library of Congress site, with excellent grayscale facsimiles of several Whitman notebooks, including the early notebook ("Talbot Wilson") in which he can be seen working out the new style for the 1855 Leaves of Grass, and some Civil War notebooks, which he kept while nursing soldiers in Washington DC hospitals. You can also access these through the Whitman Archive site.
  

• Virtual Catalog of Whitman Poetry Manuscripts: Part of the Whitman Archive, this online catalog combines Whitman resources at over 70 different institutions, creating a single integrated finding guide for Whitman manuscripts. Facsimiles of all manuscripts are now (or soon will be) available, and transcriptions of the manuscripts are appearing regularly.

   

Some sites that are still in progress, but which may be useful to you:

"Song of Myself "Manuscripts: This site is one I've been working on; it set out to gather for the first time the various manuscripts that lead to "Song of Myself." It's now outdated, but still offers some useful information.
Click here.

"The Sleepers": This site is one I've been working on, dealing with manuscripts, origins, and readings of "The Sleepers." Click here.

"Whitman, Dickinson, and the Civil War": Here I try to sort out Whitman's sometimes mystifying attitudes toward the Fugitive Slave Law, and I look at his attitudes toward and use of Africa, particularly Ethiopia. Click here.

The above sites are part of "The Classroom Electric" electronic teaching project. There are a number of useful and interesting sites dealing with Whitman and Dickinson in the "The Classroom Electric."

A new site that is a tremendous resource is the complete run of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle online and fully searchable. You can get every article Whitman wrote and see it in its original context (you can call up facsimiles of individual articles and/or view the whole page on which they appeared). Whitman was editor of the Eagle from March 1846 to January 1848.

A very helpful site, and one that is growing daily, is the "Vault at Pfaff's," all about Pfaff's beer hall and the bohemian writers and artists who hung out there. All issues of the Saturday Press are available in facsimile.