American Literature Timeline

Elizabethan Era

Period: Jan 1, 1558 to Jan 1, 1603

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Enlightenment

Period: Jan 1, 1660 to Jan 1, 1790

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William Hill Brown's "Power of Sympathy" published

Jan 1, 1791

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Susanna Rowson's "Charlott: A Tale of Truth" published in London, England

Jan 1, 1791

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Star Spangled Banner first written

Jan 1, 1814

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James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans" gets published

Jan 1, 1826

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William Gilmore Simms' "Martin Faber" published

Jan 1, 1833

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Aestheticism

Period: Jan 1, 1835 to Jan 1, 1910

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Transcendentalism begins

Jan 1, 1836

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Modernism Explodes

Period: Jan 1, 1850 to Jan 1, 1930

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Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published

Jan 1, 1852

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American Civil War

Period: Jan 1, 1861 to Jan 1, 1865

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Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" gets published in England

Dec 1, 1885

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Francis Bellamy composes "Pledge of Allegiance

Jan 1, 1892

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Irvin Berlin composes "Alexander's Ragtime Band"

Jan 1, 1911

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World War I

Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

DADAism

Period: Jan 1, 1916 to Jan 1, 1922

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Harlem Renaissance

Period: Jan 1, 1920 to Jan 1, 1930

F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Great Gatsby" gets published

Apr 10, 1925

Elvis Presley dazzles the world stage with his music

Period: Jan 8, 1935 to Aug 16, 1977

World War II

Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1942

D-Day: Allied invasion of Normandy, France

Jun 6, 1944

Beat Generation

Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Jan 1, 1960

Korean War

Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953

J.D Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" gets published

Jan 1, 1951

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Vietnam War

Period: Nov 1, 1955 to May 12, 1975

Lee Harvey Oswald assassinates President Kennedy

Nov 22, 1963

Louis Armstrong releases "What a Wonderful World

Jan 1, 1968

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Postmodernism

Jan 1, 1969

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Frank Sinatra releases "New York, New York"

Jun 21, 1977

Spoken Word/Poetry Slam

Period: Jan 1, 1980 to Jan 17, 2011

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