American Literature Timeline By pinoy_jedi Jan 1, 1798 Romantic Period of Literature Jan 1, 1830 Transcendentalism Jan 1, 1832 Early Victorian Age Period of Literature Jan 1, 1845 The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe Nov 14, 1851 Moby Dick by Herman Melville Mar 6, 1857 Dred Scott Decision Sep 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation Abraham Lincoln announces that the major focus of the Civil War has changed to freeing all the slaves Jan 1, 1865 Realistic Period of Literature Apr 1, 1865 Lincoln Assassination Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth Dec 1, 1884 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Jan 1, 1900 Naturalistic and Symbolistic Period of Literature Jan 1, 1901 Edwardian Period of Literature Aug 3, 1914 World War One Begins Jan 1, 1920 Modernism Jan 1, 1920 Harlem Renaissance Jan 1, 1920 Prohibition of Alcohol 18th Amendment prohibits alcohol Jan 1, 1925 I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes Apr 10, 1925 The Great Gastby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Sep 1, 1937 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Jan 1, 1939 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Dec 7, 1941 Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor Jan 1, 1945 United States bombs Japan Jan 1, 1950 The Beat Generation Jul 1, 1951 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Sep 5, 1957 On the Road by Jack Kerouac Jan 1, 1960 Post-Modernism Jul 11, 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Nov 22, 1963 John F. Kennedy assassination Jan 1, 1965 Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan Jan 20, 1971 What's Going On by Marvin Gaye Jan 1, 1982 The Color Purple by Alice Walker Jan 15, 2011 The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
