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The Invention of American Tradition

Revolution and Ideology

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The Scarlet Letter Rit

Longfellow, again, henry long wildly influential for making up a myth that we've called out. He semme consierase the scarlet letter rit which was written in eighteenfort not about events 200 years prior. The great american desert was the best example of an invented tradition in the interior. I still think the wild west, but he's a geographer and talking mostly about how we view the space itself. So yes, and i guess i wouldn't disagree from a geographic lens.

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