American Literature Timeline

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  • Romantic Period of Literature

  • Transcendentalism

  • Early Victorian Age Period of Literature

  • The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe

    The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe

  • Moby Dick by Herman Melville

  • Dred Scott Decision

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Abraham Lincoln announces that the major focus of the Civil War has changed to freeing all the slaves

  • Realistic Period of Literature

  • Lincoln Assassination

    Lincoln Assassination

    Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

  • Naturalistic and Symbolistic Period of Literature

  • Edwardian Period of Literature

  • World War One Begins

  • Modernism

  • Harlem Renaissance

  • Prohibition of Alcohol

    18th Amendment prohibits alcohol

  • I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes

  • The Great Gastby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

    The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

  • Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor

  • United States bombs Japan

  • The Beat Generation

  • The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

    The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

  • On the Road by Jack Kerouac

    On the Road by Jack Kerouac

  • Post-Modernism

  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

  • John F. Kennedy assassination

    John F. Kennedy assassination

  • Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan

    Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan

  • What's Going On by Marvin Gaye

    What's Going On by Marvin Gaye

  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker

  • The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

    The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

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