American Literature Timeline

By mgrgich

  • Common Sense Published

    Originally Published Anonomously, Written by Thomas Paine

  • Declaration of Independance Drafted

    Written By Thomas Jefferson
  • The United States of America Declares Independance from Great Britain

    The United States of America Declares Independance from Great Britain

    The war for independance followed.
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    Romanticist Literature Movement

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  • The Monroe Doctrine Issued

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    Transcendentilism Emerged

    *Dates Approximate

  • The Book of Moron Published

    Published by Joseph Smith.

  • Realism Emerges as a Movement

  • Uncle Toms Cabin Published

    Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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    Naturalism

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Written by Mark Twain

  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Published

    Written By L. Frank Baum

  • The Jungle

    Written by Upton Sinclaire
  • Modernism Begins

    Modernism Begins

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    Emergence of Modernism

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    America's Involvement in WWI

    The war began in 1914.
  • Emergence of the Surrealist Movement

    Emergence of the Surrealist Movement

    *Date Aproximate
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    Harlem Renneissance

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    Post-Modernism Begins

    *Dates Approximate
  • The Great Gatsby Published

    The Great Gatsby Published

    Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Great Depression Struck

    The Great Depression Struck

    The worst economic disaster in the history of the world.
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God Published

    Their Eyes Were Watching God Published

    Written by Zora Neale Hurston. *Date Approximate
  • Bill Cosby Born

    Bill Cosby Born

    One of the Greatest Americans to have ever graced the world.

  • The Grapes of Wrath Published

    Written by John Steinbeck
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    America's Involvement in WWII

    War began in 1938.
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    The Cold War

    The United States Involved in a Tense Weapons Standoff with the Soviet Union.
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    The Beat Generation

    *Dates Approximate
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    Korean War

    *Dates reflect Armed Conflict, War has never been technically ended. US and North Korea in a perpetual Armistace.
  • Catcher in the Rye Published

    Catcher in the Rye Published

    Written by J.D. Salinger
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    The Vietnam War

    American's Anti-Communist involvement in Vietnam.
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers his Iconic "I Have A Dream Speech"

    Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers his Iconic "I Have A Dream Speech"

  • I Am America, And So Can You!

    Written by Stephen Colbert