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Exploring the letters and literature of our American forebears.

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Discover all the epicness of “Black Beaver the Trapper” here: https://t.co/SigcRJNfoW

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This dude is EPIC. https://t.co/tjUY47bBA1

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For analysis of historical inaccuracies (of which Longfellow was well aware) please see: https://t.co/Rrk41ykNDS

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"Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere"
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"The Inquisition has never been able to prevent a vast number of anti-religious books from circulating in Spain. The empire of the majority succeeds much better in the United States, since it actually removes the wish of publishing them." https://t.co/iUza8r2TNx

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"In America the majority raises very formidable barriers to the liberty of opinion: within these barriers an author may write whatever he pleases, but he will repent it if he ever step beyond them." - Alexis de Tocqueville https://t.co/iUza8r2TNx

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Whitman in praise of everything! https://t.co/pF03Q4QrDH

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This episode drips with liquid myrrh. 🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/gN80LhFUOv

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"Brigham's counsel was bearing fruit. Neither my scalp, nor our cattle, beyond that one cow, were interfered with, while Fort Bridger was heavily raided." - John R. Young on the Mormon Trail
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"Thousands of our people, many of them mothers with babes in their arms, walked every foot of that ten hundred thirty-seven mile stretch from Winter Quarters to Salt Lake." - John R. Young on the Mormon Trail https://t.co/PcFYzxeK77

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Found this gem on @Wikipedia. A sketch inspired by Emerson's words in "Nature": "I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." https://t.co/hP9iiQjWZB

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Enjoy Emerson's "Nature" essay! https://t.co/9zLamWoeT7

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"The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other." - Ralph Waldo Emerson https://t.co/hP9iiQjWZB

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When they ask where you see yourself in 10 years: "Being master of my time, I spend a good deal of it in a library."
John Dickinson is 🔥🔥🔥
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Beard goals courtesy of James Russell Lowell.

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One of the best beards in American literary history has something to say about politics. https://t.co/kZu9H8sa6t

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"The Stile of this Confederacy shall be 'The United States of America'" 🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/eX7ekRx56n

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Punning genius 😂 https://t.co/pm9q59N4hb

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Iconic poem. 🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/7ZhXfqLNTH

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This dude was bougie. https://t.co/RXIqj34MHM