Name: Founding Friendships and the Making of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, America's Second Declaration of Independence
Location: New-York Historical Society, UWS

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Founding Friendships and the Making of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, America's Second Declaration of Independence

Tue, May 19 at 5pm

New-York Historical Society, UWS

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Scholar Karen Karbiener lectures on the origins of Leaves of Grass.

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