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A Poem for Independence Day By Ralph Waldo Emerson By Robert Hass July 5, 1998 Independence Day weekend, so I have been thinking about poetry and the creation of national memory. In the June 11 New York Review of Books there's a very interesting essay by historian Alexander Stille about the teaching of American history in our schools. It gives examples of the ways our national stories get told ...