American Literature Timeline By awatt Period: Jan 1, 1830 to Dec 31, 1840 Transcendentalism Period: Jan 1, 1830 to Dec 31, 1900 Realism Period: Jan 1, 1835 to Dec 31, 1910 Aestheticism Period: Apr 25, 1846 to Feb 2, 1848 Mexican–American War Aug 9, 1854 Walden, Henry David Thoreau Period: Apr 12, 1861 to Apr 9, 1865 American Civil War Period: Jan 1, 1865 to Dec 31, 1900 Naturalism Mar 14, 1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain Dec 14, 1884 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain Period: Jan 1, 1910 to Dec 14, 1945 Modernism Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918 World War 1 Period: Jan 1, 1918 to Dec 31, 1930 Lost Generation Period: Jan 1, 1920 to Dec 31, 1930 Harlem Renaissance Apr 10, 1925 The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald Period: Jan 1, 1935 to Dec 31, 2012 Magic realism Sep 10, 1937 Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston Mar 14, 1939 The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945 World War 2 Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Dec 31, 1991 The Cold War Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Dec 31, 1960 Beat Generation Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Jan 1, 2012 Post Modernism Jul 16, 1951 Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger Written by J. D. Salinger Period: Jan 1, 1955 to Dec 31, 1968 African-American Civil Rights Movement Sep 13, 1959 Apollo 11 Jul 11, 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee May 25, 1961 J.F.K. Moon Speech Aug 28, 1963 I Have a Dream Speech, Martin Luther King, Jr Apr 3, 1964 The Ballot or the Bullet Speech, Malcolm X May 31, 1965 Album, The Wailing Wailers, Bob Marley Nov 3, 1969 The Great Silent Majority, Nixon Mar 14, 1993 The Giver, Lois Lowry Sep 11, 2001 September 11 Attacks (9/11)
