What do Twain, Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, Hawthorne, Emerson and Bancroft have in common? Maybe you guessed they are all literary greats, and sure that’s true but also, they all had a school named for them in Sioux Falls South Dakota!

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Transcendentalism | Definition, Characteristics, Beliefs, Authors, & Facts | Britannica

Ralph Waldo Emerson | Biography, Poems, Books, Nature, Self-Reliance, & Facts | Britannica

John Greenleaf Whittier - American Literature - Oxford Bibliographies

John Greenleaf Whittier | Poetry Foundation

Fireside Poets | Poetry Foundation

James Russell Lowell | American Poet, Critic & Abolitionist | Britannica

Nathaniel Hawthorne | Biography, Books, Short Stories, & Analysis | Britannica

George Bancroft | American Historian, Author, Diplomat | Britannica

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Biography, Poems, & Facts | Britannica

Mark Twain | Biography & Facts | Britannica