Timeline: American Literature Timeline | Timetoast

Period: Mar 30, 1746 to Feb 12, 1837

Romanticism
Period: Mar 14, 1775 to Oct 14, 1781

The American Revolution
Mar 14, 1777

The Star-Spangled Banner written

by Francis Scott Key
Period: Mar 14, 1812 to Mar 14, 1870

The American Industrial Revolution
Period: Jan 1, 1830 to Dec 31, 1849

Transcendentalism

popularized in 1830s and 1840s
Mar 14, 1860

Paul Revere's Ride written

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Period: Mar 14, 1861 to Mar 14, 1865

The Civil War
Period: Mar 14, 1865 to Mar 14, 1877

Reconstruction
Mar 14, 1884

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published

published in 1884, written by Mark Twain
Mar 14, 1895

America the Beautiful written

by Katharine Lee Bates
Period: Jan 1, 1910 to Dec 31, 1930

Modernism
Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

World War I
Period: Mar 14, 1919 to Mar 14, 1935

The Harlem Renaissance
Period: Mar 14, 1920 to Mar 14, 1929

Roaring Twenties
Apr 10, 1925

The Great Gatsby published

written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Period: Sep 4, 1929 to Mar 14, 1940

The Great Depression
Sep 1, 1937

Their Eyes Were Watching God published

written by Zora Neale Hurston
Apr 14, 1939

The Grapes of Wrath published

by John Steinbeck
Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Aug 15, 1945

World War II
Jul 26, 1945

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Period: Nov 15, 1945 to Dec 14, 1991

The Cold War

Soviet Union and United States race for arms
Period: Mar 14, 1947 to Mar 14, 1959

The Beat Generation
Jun 8, 1949

1984 published

by George Orwell
Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Dec 31, 1969

Post-Modernism

Post-modernism: 1950s to 1960s
Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953

The Korean War
Jul 16, 1951

The Catcher in the Rye published

written by J.D. Salinger
Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975

The Vietnam War
Period: Dec 1, 1955 to Aug 14, 1968

The Civil Rights Movement
Jul 11, 1960

To Kill a Mockingbird published

by Harper Lee
Mar 14, 1962

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest published

by Ken Kesey
Period: Aug 1, 1962 to Oct 28, 1962

The Cuban Missile Crisis
Apr 16, 1963

Letter from a Birmingham Jail written

by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Nov 19, 1963

The Gettysburg Address

by Abraham Lincoln
Mar 14, 1974

My Brother Sam is Dead published

by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
Sep 11, 2001

September 11 Terrorist Attacks
Sep 14, 2008

The Hunger Games published

by Suzanne Collins
Period: Aug 25, 2010 to Dec 31, 2011

World War III

The unconditional surrender of France marked the start of a new era of Chinese rule. With this the United States, along with its allies, challenged the Chinese to an all-out nuclear war.