American Literature Timeline By alex3ka Mar 14, 1750 Romanticism Apr 19, 1775 The American Revolution Sep 17, 1787 The United States Constitution Jun 18, 1812 The War of 1812 Period: Mar 14, 1830 to Mar 14, 1849 Transcendentalism Mar 14, 1845 The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Jan 1, 1848 Realism Mar 14, 1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stower Mar 14, 1860 Song of Myself by Walt Whitman Apr 12, 1861 American Civil War Mar 14, 1870 Gilded Age Mar 14, 1880 Naturalism Dec 14, 1884 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain Mar 14, 1890 A Hazard of New Fortunes by William Dean Howells Mar 14, 1890 Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson Mar 14, 1906 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Dec 14, 1910 Modernism Jul 28, 1914 World War 1 Mar 14, 1916 Dadaism Mar 14, 1918 Ulysses by James Joyce Jan 1, 1919 The Harlem Renaissance Mar 14, 1920 Surrealism Apr 10, 1925 The Great Gatsby - Scott F. Fitzgerald Mar 14, 1929 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Oct 29, 1929 The Great Depression Jan 1, 1937 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Sep 1, 1939 World War 2 Jan 1, 1945 Cold War Jan 1, 1950 Post-Modernism Jan 1, 1950 The Beat Generation Mar 14, 1951 Moby Dick by Herman Melville Jul 16, 1951 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Nov 1, 1955 Vietnam War Nov 1, 1955 Vietnam War Mar 14, 1974 Alphabetic Africa by Walter Abish Jan 20, 2009 Barack Obama becomes the first black president
