The Correspondence of Walt Whitman: A Fourth Supplement with Addenda to the Calendar of Letters Written to Whitman

Prints thirty-three previously unpublished Whitman letters, with an introduction by Genoways (123-127) and an "Addenda to the Calendar of Letters Written to Whitman" (145-147)

"Ashes of Soldiers": Walt Whitman and C. H. Sholes, A New Letter and a Newspaper Article

Prints a previously unpublished letter from Whitman to Sholes and reprints an 1880 article by Sholes (published on Decoration Day in 1880) about Whitman

Jesse Whitman in 1861: A New Letter

Prints a facsimile and transcription of a draft fragment of a Whitman letter to Samuel Livingston Breese concerning the firing of the poet\u27s brother Jesse from the Brooklyn shipyard

The Correspondence of Walt Whitman: A Third Supplement with Addenda to the Calendar of Letters Written to Whitman

Gathers and annotates all the Whitman letters discovered since the publication of Edwin Haviland Miller\u27s "Second Supplement" in WWQR (Winter/Spring 1991), and includes an update on recently discovered letters to Whitman

Two Unpublished Letters: Walt Whitman to William James Linton, March 14 and April 11, 1872

Prints two previously unpublished Whitman letters to Linton, filling in details of the early relationship between Whitman and the engraver/writer/anthologist

The Experiences of Female High School Students and Interest in STEM: Factors Leading to the Selection of an Engineering or Computer Science Major

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education creates critical thinkers, increases science literacy, and enables the next generation of innovators, which leads to new products and processes that sustain our economy (Hossain & Robinson, 2012). We have been hearing the warnings for several years, that there simply are not enough young scientists entering into the STEM professional pathways to replace all of the retiring professionals (Brown, Brown, Reardon, & Merrill, 2011; Harsh, Maltese, & Tai, 2012; Heilbronner, 2011; Scott, 2012). The problem is not necessarily due to a lack of STEM skills and concept proficiency. There also appears to be a lack of interest in these fields. Recent evidence suggests that many of the most proficient students, especially minority students and women, have been gravitating away from science and engineering toward other professions. (President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, 2010). The purpose of this qualitative research study was an attempt to determine how high schools can best prepare and encourage young women for a career in engineering or computer science. This was accomplished by interviewing a pool of 21 women, 5 recent high school graduates planning to major in STEM, 5 college students who had completed at least one full year of coursework in an engineering or computer science major and 11 professional women who had been employed as an engineer or computer scientist for at least one full year. These women were asked to share the high school courses, activities, and experiences that best prepared them to pursue an engineering or computer science major. Five central themes emerged from this study; coursework in physics and calculus, promotion of STEM camps and clubs, teacher encouragement of STEM capabilities and careers, problem solving, critical thinking and confidence building activities in the classroom, and allowing students the opportunity to fail and ask questions in a safe environment. These themes may be implemented by any instructor, in any course, who wishes to provide students with the means to success in their quest for a STEM career

ASM Archives [Comments and News]

Biographical blurb about American Society of Mammalogists founder, Hartley H.T. Jackson, and his wife, Anna M. Jackson. Includes photograph from the ASM Archives, donated by Victor B. Scheffer

The Disorder of Drum-Taps

Examines the printing history of Drum-Taps, comparing "the March 1865 advertising placard to the final table of contents," establishing "the high cost of paper in the late Civil War and Whitman\u27s financial concerns," identifying "the different type designs in Drum-Taps," showing "how each change reveals a new stage in the production process," and reexamining "the surviving documentary evidence of the printing process to create a more complete chronology of the process of revision and publication"; concludes that the book was largely arranged to economize space and save paper and that Drum-Taps becomes a "poignant reflection of the war, embodying in its very arrangements the wounds and scars of April 1865.

"Ashes of Soldiers": Walt Whitman and C. H. Sholes, A New Letter and a Newspaper Article

Prints a previously unpublished letter from Whitman to Sholes and reprints an 1880 article by Sholes (published on Decoration Day in 1880) about Whitman

ASM Archives [Comments and News]

Biographical blurb about American Society of Mammalogists founder, Hartley H.T. Jackson, and his wife, Anna M. Jackson. Includes photograph from the ASM Archives, donated by Victor B. Scheffer