American Literature Timeline By azncutieg Period: Mar 14, 1660 to Mar 14, 1790 Enlightment Period: Mar 14, 1830 to Mar 14, 1900 Realism Period: Mar 14, 1832 to Mar 14, 1901 The Victorian Era Period: Sep 9, 1836 to May 13, 1849 Transcendentalism Mar 4, 1845 James K. Polk becomes president of the U.S. Mar 30, 1850 'The Scarlet Letter" is published by Nathaniel Hawthorne. picture Oct 18, 1851 "Moby Dick" is published by Herman Melville. picture Mar 20, 1852 "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is published by Harriet Beecher Stowe. picture Jul 4, 1855 'Leaves of Grass" is published by Walt Whitman. picture Period: Apr 12, 1861 to Apr 9, 1865 The American Civil War Nov 14, 1861 "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" is written by Julia Ward Howe. Period: Mar 14, 1865 to Mar 14, 1900 Naturalism Dec 6, 1865 The 13th Amendment is enacted, abolishing slavery. Dec 10, 1884 The "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is published by Mark Twain. title picture Nov 14, 1890 A collection of poems by Emily Dickinson, titled "Poems", is published. picture Feb 28, 1906 "The Jungle" is published by Upton Sinclair. picture Period: Jan 1, 1910 to Dec 3, 1945 Modernism Jun 13, 1914 "North of Boston" is published by Robert Frost. picture Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918 World War I Period: Mar 14, 1916 to Mar 14, 1922 Dadaism Period: Mar 14, 1920 to Mar 14, 1938 Surrealism Aug 18, 1920 The 19th Amendment is enacted, giving women the right to vote. Dec 22, 1922 "The Waste Land" is published by T.S. Eliot. picture Period: Mar 14, 1923 to Mar 14, 1937 The Harlem Renaissance Apr 10, 1925 "The Great Gatsby" is published by F. Scott Fitzgerald. picture Mar 13, 1929 "A Farewell to Arns" is published by Ernest Hemingway picture Sep 13, 1937 "Their Eyes Were Watching God" is published by Zora Neale Hurston. picture Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945 World War II Period: Dec 28, 1945 to Mar 14, 2012 Post Modernism Jul 16, 1951 "The Catcher in the Rye" is published by J.D. Salinger. [picture](//http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye) Period: Mar 14, 1956 to Mar 14, 1962 The Beat Generation Jul 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr, became the first men to land on the moon.
