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Literature Atlas. "The American Scholar." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/the-american-scholar.

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Literature Atlas. (n.d.). The American Scholar. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/the-american-scholar

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@misc{literatureatlas-the-american-scholar,
  author = {Literature Atlas},
  title = {The American Scholar},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/the-american-scholar},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Address to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard, 31 August 1837, calling for an American literature independent of Europe; Oliver Wendell Holmes later called it America's intellectual declaration of independence.

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1. Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar (1837)

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