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Washington Irving publishes The Sketch Book
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James Fenimore Cooper publishes The Pioneers
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Noah Webster publishes a landmark dictionary of American English
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Oliver Wendell Holmes publishes "Old Ironsides"
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John Greenleaf Whittier publishes Justice and Expediency in which he calls for the abolition of slavery
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France's Alexis de Toqueville publishes Democracy in America
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Margaret Fuller publishes Women in the Nineteenth Century
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Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Raven and Other Poems
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James Russell Lowell publishes The Biglow Papers, poems opposing the Mexican War
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Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter