American Literature Timeline

  • Romanticism

    Romanticism
  • The American Revolution

    The American Revolution
  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase
  • The Lewis and Clark Expedition

    The Lewis and Clark Expedition
  • Transcendentalism

    Transcendentalism
  • Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe

    Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe
  • Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

    Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
  • Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

    Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
  • Symbolism

    Symbolism
  • American Civil War

    American Civil War
  • Naturalism

    Naturalism
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • Imagism

    Imagism
  • The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

    The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
  • Harlem Renaissance

    Harlem Renaissance
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • A Good Man is Hard to Find recorded by Bessie Smith and written by Eddie Green

    A Good Man is Hard to Find recorded by Bessie Smith and written by Eddie Green
  • You're the Cream in My Coffee recorded by Annette Hanshaw

    You're the Cream in My Coffee recorded by Annette Hanshaw
  • Modernism

    Modernism
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

    Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

    The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

    For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Attack on Pearl Harbor
  • Post-Modernism

    Post-Modernism
  • The Beat Generation

    The Beat Generation
  • Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

    Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
  • New Realism

    New Realism
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

    Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  • 9/11

    9/11