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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
1400 - 1700
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Jan 1, 1492
Columbus Sailed to the New World
Columbus led his three ships - the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria - out of the Spanish port of Palos on August 3, 1492. -
Jan 1, 1493
Christopher Columbus
Frome Letter to Luis de Sntangel Regarding the First Voyage -
Jan 1, 1542
Alvar Nunez Caveza de Vaca
From The Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (Dedication) -
John Smith
From The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles -
William Bradford
Of Plymouth Plantation -
Roger Williams
From a Key into the Language of America -
Anne Bradstreet
Contemplations -
Edward Taylor
Meditation 8 (First Series) -
Period: to
1700 -1820
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Jonathan Edwards
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God -
Benjamin Franklin
The Way to Wealth -
Samson Ocoom
From A Short Narrative of My Life -
Phillis Wheatley
On Being Brought fronm Africa to America -
Thomas Paine
From Common Sense -
Olaudah Equiano
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African, Written by Himself -
Red Jacket
Speech to the U.S. Senate -
Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle -
Period: to
1820 - 1865
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James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of The Mohicans -
Thomas Jefferson
The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson -
William Cullen Bryant
The Prairies -
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Young Goodman Brown -
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm of Life -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance -
Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican-American War. -
Henry David Thoreau
Resistance to Civil Government -
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly -
Francis Ellen Watkins Harper
Eliza Harris -
Herman Melville
Bartleby, the Scrivener -
Fanny Fern
Male Criticism on Ladies' Books -
Emily Dickinson
760 -
Abraham Lincoln
Address Delivered the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863 -
Emancipation Proclamation
Proposed by President Lincoln, ordering that slaves in rebelling lands be freed, and transforming the war into a moral crusade. Went into effect on Jan. 1, 1863. It did not, however, free slaves in border Union states. -
Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -
Period: to
1865 - 1914
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John Greenleaf Whittier
Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl -
Walt Whitman
One's-Self I Sing -
Emma Lazarus
1492 -
Ambrose Bierce
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge -
Kate Chopin
Desiree's Baby -
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Richard Cory -
Stephen Crane
The Open Boat -
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Sympathy -
Booker T. Washington
Up from Slavery -
W.E.B. Dubois
The Souls of Black Folk -
Fundamentalism
The response of the church to modernism. Manifestations included: higher textual criticism of the Bible, social gospel, and urban revivalism. -
Ezra Pound
Portrait d'une Femme -
Robert Frost
Mowing -
Carl Sandburg
Chicago -
World War 1
Global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. -
Period: to
1914 - 1945
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E.E. Cummings
in Just- -
Marianne Moore
Poetry -
Langston Hughes
The Negro Speaks of Rivers -
William Carlos Williams
Spring and All -
T.S. Eliot
The Hollow Men -
Willa Cather
Neighbour Rosicky -
Zora Neale Hurston
How It Feels to Be Colored Me -
Wallace Stevens
The Snow Man -
William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily -
World War II
A global war. It is generally considered to have lasted from 1939 to 1945, although some conflicts in Asia that are commonly viewed as becoming part of the world war had been going on earlier than that. It involved the vast majority of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. -
Gwendolyn Brooks
the mother -
Period: to
1945 - 2013
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Elizabeth Bishop
The Fish -
Theodore Roethke
Cuttings -
Adrienne Rich
Storm Warnings -
Flannery O'Connor
Good Country People -
Robert Hayden
Middle Passage -
N. Scott Momaday
The Way to Rainy Mountain -
Alice Walker
Everyday Use -
Gloria Anzaldua
How to Tame a Wild Tongue -
Billy Collins
Forgetfulness
