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Whitman on the Case

The 1857 murder of Harvey Burdell shook the nation. Since then, it has spawned true crime books, scholarly essays, podcasts, and novels. Yet, one of the perhaps most famous chroniclers of the case has been forgotten: Walt Whitman. Follow a team of university researchers as they recover the Good Gray Poet's lost reporting on the case and unearth what the author of Leaves of Grass had to say about New York City's most notorious murder trial.

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    Whitman on the Case. Episode 2. The Trial.

    "Whitman on the Case” was written by Logan Kurz, Maria Pakutka, Saul Resendis Jr., Stefan Schöberlein, and Sequoya Johnston, all affiliated with Texas A&M University—Central Texas, located in the beautiful Texas hill country. Produced by Stefan Schöberlein. Cast: Narrator: Sequoya Johnston Walt Whitman: Jason Stacy Newspaper boy: Logan Kurz Screams and other soundbites: David Danmier, Logan Kurz, Maria Pakutka, Saul Resendis Jr., Stefan Schöberlein The team of “Whitman on the Case” would like to thank the Walt Whitman Archive (www.whitmanarchive.org), namely Kevin McMullen, Jason Stacy, and Stephanie M. Blalock, for their support. All of the underlying Whitman reporting, which was digitized with generous grant funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is and will be made available on the Whitman Archive. Thanks are also due to Cassandra Simms and David Danmier, who contributed to early drafts of the script and provided feedback. A number of books and articles helped us bring you this podcast: Blalock, Stephanie M., Kevin McMullen, Stefan Schöberlein, and Jason Stacy, "Finding Whitman between the Columns: A Trip into Nineteenth-Century Newsprint," C19 Podcast series 5.5 (2022). Blalock, Stephanie M., Kevin McMullen, Stefan Schöberlein, and Jason Stacy. "About the Brooklyn Daily Times." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 28 October 2024. http://www.whitmanarchive.org. Gamber, Wendy, "Tarnished Labor: The Home, the Market, and the Boardinghouse in Antebellum America," Journal of the Early Republic 22.2 (2002), 177–204 Feldman, Benjamin P. Butchery on Bond Street Sexual Politics and the Burdell-Cunningham Case in Antebellum New York (Greenwood Cemetery Historic Fund, 2007). Hendler, Glenn, "Whitman and the Police," Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman, ed. Kenneth M. Price and Stefan Schöberlein (Oxford University Press, 2024), 322–340. Karbiener, Karen, "Reconstructing Whitman's Desk at the Brooklyn Daily Times," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 33.1 (2015): 21–50. Ostrowski, Carl, "'The Best Side of a Case of Crime': George Lippard, Walt Whitman, and Antebellum Police Reports," American Periodicals 21.2 (2011), 120–142 Reynolds, David S., Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography (Vintage,1995).

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    Whitman on the Case. Episode 1. The Investigation.

    "Whitman on the Case” was written by Logan Kurz, Maria Pakutka, Saul Resendis Jr., Stefan Schöberlein, and Sequoya Johnston, all affiliated with Texas A&M University—Central Texas, located in the beautiful Texas hill country. Produced by Stefan Schöberlein. Cast: Narrator: Sequoya Johnston Walt Whitman: Jason Stacy Newspaper boy: Logan Kurz Screams and other soundbites: David Danmier, Logan Kurz, Maria Pakutka, Saul Resendis Jr., Stefan Schöberlein The team of “Whitman on the Case” would like to thank the Walt Whitman Archive (www.whitmanarchive.org), namely Kevin McMullen, Jason Stacy, and Stephanie M. Blalock, for their support. All of the underlying Whitman reporting, which was digitized with generous grant funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is and will be made available on the Whitman Archive. Thanks are also due to Cassandra Simms and David Danmier, who contributed to early drafts of the script and provided feedback. A number of books and articles helped us bring you this podcast: Blalock, Stephanie M., Kevin McMullen, Stefan Schöberlein, and Jason Stacy, "Finding Whitman between the Columns: A Trip into Nineteenth-Century Newsprint," C19 Podcast series 5.5 (2022). Blalock, Stephanie M., Kevin McMullen, Stefan Schöberlein, and Jason Stacy. "About the Brooklyn Daily Times." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 28 October 2024. http://www.whitmanarchive.org. Gamber, Wendy, "Tarnished Labor: The Home, the Market, and the Boardinghouse in Antebellum America," Journal of the Early Republic 22.2 (2002), 177–204 Feldman, Benjamin P. Butchery on Bond Street Sexual Politics and the Burdell-Cunningham Case in Antebellum New York (Greenwood Cemetery Historic Fund, 2007). Hendler, Glenn, "Whitman and the Police," Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman, ed. Kenneth M. Price and Stefan Schöberlein (Oxford University Press, 2024), 322–340. Karbiener, Karen, "Reconstructing Whitman's Desk at the Brooklyn Daily Times," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 33.1 (2015): 21–50. Ostrowski, Carl, "'The Best Side of a Case of Crime': George Lippard, Walt Whitman, and Antebellum Police Reports," American Periodicals 21.2 (2011), 120–142 Reynolds, David S., Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography (Vintage,1995).

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The 1857 murder of Harvey Burdell shook the nation. Since then, it has spawned true crime books, scholarly essays, podcasts, and novels. Yet, one of the perhaps most famous chroniclers of the case has been forgotten: Walt Whitman. Follow a team of university researchers as they recover the Good Gray Poet's lost reporting on the case and unearth what the author of Leaves of Grass had to say about New York City's most notorious murder trial.

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The 1857 murder of Harvey Burdell shook the nation. Since then, it has spawned true crime books, scholarly essays, podcasts, and novels. Yet, one of the perhaps most famous chroniclers of the case has been forgotten: Walt Whitman. Follow a team of university researchers as they recover the Good...

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