American Literature Timeline By karinas Period: Jan 17, 1660 to Jan 17, 1790 Enlightenment Jul 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence Period: Jan 17, 1798 to Jan 17, 1832 Romanticism Period: Jan 17, 1835 to Jan 17, 1860 Transcendentalism Jan 17, 1850 The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Jan 17, 1851 Moby Dick by Herman Melville Period: Jan 17, 1861 to Jan 17, 1865 Civil War http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_v63oTveUEGI/SaXAQnJMzXI/AAAAAAAAIMc/J8njpZbzS0E/s1600-h/civil_war_soldiers.jpg Period: Jan 17, 1865 to Jan 17, 1877 Reconstruction Era Apr 15, 1865 Preseident Abraham Lincoln Dies Jan 17, 1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark twain Jan 17, 1884 The Adventures of Hckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Period: Jan 17, 1910 to Jan 17, 1930 Modernism Period: Jan 17, 1914 to Jan 17, 1918 World War I Period: Jan 17, 1916 to Jan 17, 1922 Dadaism Period: Jan 17, 1918 to Jan 17, 1930 The Harlem Renaissance Period: Jan 17, 1920 to Jan 17, 1930 Surrealism Jan 17, 1922 The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot Jan 17, 1922 Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Jan 17, 1923 The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens Jan 17, 1925 The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald Jan 17, 1931 Somewhere I Have Already Traveled, Gladly Beyond by E.E. Cummings Period: Jan 17, 1935 to Jan 17, 2011 Magic Realism Jan 17, 1936 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Jan 17, 1937 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Period: Jan 17, 1939 to Jan 17, 1945 World War II Period: Jan 17, 1950 to Jan 17, 1960 The Beat Generation Jan 17, 1951 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Jan 17, 1956 Howl by Allen Ginsberg Jan 17, 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Period: Jan 17, 1970 to Jan 17, 2011 Post-Modernism Jan 20, 2009 Obama Wins Presidency (First African-American leader of U.S.)
