American Literature

Native American - 20,000 BCE to present

Period: 160 to Aug 30, 2012

Book: Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie

Puritan

Period: Aug 30, 1472 to Aug 30, 1750

Book: Meditation by Anne Bradstreet (1661)

Revolutionary; Age of Reason

Period: Aug 30, 1750 to Aug 30, 1800

Book: Rights of Man by Thomas Paine (1791)

Declaration of Independence

Jul 4, 1776

U.S Constitution

Jun 21, 1788

Gothic

Period: Aug 30, 1800 to Aug 30, 1850

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

Romanticism

Period: Aug 30, 1800 to Aug 30, 1840

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

Transcendentalism

Period: Aug 30, 1840 to Aug 30, 1855

Work: Compensation Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841)

Realism

Period: Aug 30, 1865 to Aug 30, 1915

Book: The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899)

Regionalism

Period: Aug 31, 1880 to Aug 31, 1930

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

Modernism

Period: Aug 30, 1915 to Aug 30, 1946

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

Harlem Renaissance

Period: Aug 30, 1919 to Aug 30, 1935

Book: Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes (1930)

19th amendment

Aug 18, 1920

Contemporary

Period: Aug 30, 1946 to Aug 30, 2012

Book: Zorro by Isabel Allende (2005)

Assasination of Martin Luther King Junior

Apr 4, 1968

First Man on Moon

Jul 20, 1969