American Literature

  • Period: 160 to

    Native American - 20,000 BCE to present

    Book: Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie
  • Period: Aug 30, 1472 to

    Puritan

    Book: Meditation by Anne Bradstreet (1661)
  • Period: to

    Revolutionary; Age of Reason

    Book: Rights of Man by Thomas Paine (1791)
  • Declaration of Independence

  • U.S Constitution

  • Period: to

    Gothic

    Book: The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe (1846)
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    Romanticism

    Book: Dr. Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawethorne (1837)
  • Period: to

    Transcendentalism

    Work: Compensation Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841)
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    Realism

    Book: The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899)
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    Regionalism

    Book: The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett (1896)
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    Modernism

    Book: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
  • Period: to

    Harlem Renaissance

    Book: Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes (1930)
  • 19th amendment

  • Period: to

    Contemporary

    Book: Zorro by Isabel Allende (2005)
  • Assasination of Martin Luther King Junior

  • First Man on Moon