In 1854, three years following publication of Moby-Dick, Melville, New York, on Long Island, was named in Melville's honor.[211][212]
In 1982, the Library of America (LOA) began publishing works in honor of Melville's central place in American culture; the first volume contained Typee, Omoo, and Mardi. Subsequent volumes included Melville's Redburn, White-Jacket, and Moby-Dick, published in 1983, and Pierre, Israel Potter, The Confidence-Man, Tales, and Billy Budd, published in 1985. LOA did not publish his complete poetry until 2019.
On August 1, 1984, as part of the Literary Arts Series of stamps, the U.S. Postal Service issued a 20-cent commemorative stamp to honor Melville. The setting for the first day of issue was the Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts.[213]
In 1985, the New York City Herman Melville Society gathered at 104 East 26th Street to dedicate the intersection of Park Avenue South and 26th Street as Herman Melville Square, where Melville lived from 1863 to 1891 and where he authored Billy Budd and other works.[214] Melville's house in Lansingburgh, New York, houses the Lansingburgh Historical Society.
In 2010, a species of extinct sperm whale, Livyatan melvillei, was named in honor of Melville. The paleontologists who discovered the fossil were fans of Moby-Dick, and dedicated their discovery to the author.[215][216]
Agha Shahid Ali, a Kashmiri-American poet ends his famous English ghazal "Tonight" with the line "call me Ishmael tonight".[217]
