American Literature Timeline By 95mad Period: Jan 1, 1830 to Jan 1, 1975 American Literature and History Mar 11, 1830 Transcendentalism 1830-1840 Mar 11, 1848 Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Literary/Cultural movement Mar 11, 1851 Moby Dick- Herman Melville Mar 11, 1880 Naturalism- Lit. Movement 1880-1940 Mar 11, 1884 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark twain Mar 11, 1900 The Lost Generation- literary movement Mar 11, 1900 Stream of Consciousness- lit. movement Mar 11, 1900 Womens Suffrage Movement Mar 11, 1910 Imagism- Poetry movement Jul 28, 1914 World War 1 Mar 11, 1920 The Harlem Renaissance 1920-1930 Mar 11, 1920 I Carry Your Heart With Me- E.E Cummings Mar 11, 1925 The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald Mar 11, 1925 I, Too, Sing America- Langston Hughes Mar 11, 1929 A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway Oct 29, 1929 The Great Depression Mar 11, 1937 Their Eyes Were Watching God- Zora Neale Hurston Mar 11, 1937 Of Mice and Men- John Steinbeck Mar 11, 1939 The Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck Sep 1, 1939 World War 11 Mar 11, 1945 The Cold War 1945-1991 Mar 11, 1950 The Beat Generation Jul 16, 1951 Catcher in the Rye- J.D Salinger Mar 11, 1955 Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 Nov 1, 1955 Vietnam War 1955-1975 Nov 11, 1961 Catch-22 Joseph Heller Dec 22, 1964 A Change is Gonna Come- Sam Cooke Mar 11, 1965 The Times They are a Changin' - Bob Dylan Apr 4, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated Aug 15, 1969 Woodstock Festival Jan 20, 1971 What's Going On- Marvin Gaye Jun 17, 1972 Watergate Scandal Watergate Scandal
