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Three speeches that shaped American history. Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1837 Phi Beta Kappa address, "The American Scholar," on the relation between scholarship and democracy; Frederick Douglass's 1852 "Fourth of July" oration as ironic critique of Northern hypocrisy about slavery; and Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, which attempts to heal a post-Civil War nation by acknowledging its shared guilt.
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