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By Isaac V
  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    1400 - 1700

  • Columbus Sailed to the New World
    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.
  • Christopher Columbus
    Jan 1, 1493

    Christopher Columbus

    Frome Letter to Luis de Sntangel Regarding the First Voyage
  • Alvar Nunez Caveza de Vaca
    Jan 1, 1542

    Alvar Nunez Caveza de Vaca

    From The Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (Dedication)
  • John Smith

    John Smith

    From The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles
  • William Bradford

    William Bradford

    Of Plymouth Plantation
  • Roger Williams

    Roger Williams

    From a Key into the Language of America
  • Anne Bradstreet

    Anne Bradstreet

    Contemplations
  • Edward Taylor

    Edward Taylor

    Meditation 8 (First Series)
  • Period: to

    1700 -1820

  • Jonathan Edwards

    Jonathan Edwards

    Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    The Way to Wealth
  • Samson Ocoom

    Samson Ocoom

    From A Short Narrative of My Life
  • Phillis Wheatley

    Phillis Wheatley

    On Being Brought fronm Africa to America
  • Thomas Paine

    Thomas Paine

    From Common Sense
  • Olaudah Equiano

    Olaudah Equiano

    The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African, Written by Himself
  • Red Jacket

    Red Jacket

    Speech to the U.S. Senate
  • Washington Irving

    Washington Irving

    Rip Van Winkle
  • Period: to

    1820 - 1865

  • James Fenimore Cooper

    James Fenimore Cooper

    The Last of The Mohicans
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
  • William Cullen Bryant

    William Cullen Bryant

    The Prairies
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Young Goodman Brown
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    A Psalm of Life
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Self-Reliance
  • Edgar Allan Poe

    Edgar Allan Poe

    The Raven
  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican-American War.
  • Henry David Thoreau

    Henry David Thoreau

    Resistance to Civil Government
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly
  • Francis Ellen Watkins Harper

    Francis Ellen Watkins Harper

    Eliza Harris
  • Herman Melville

    Herman Melville

    Bartleby, the Scrivener
  • Fanny Fern

    Fanny Fern

    Male Criticism on Ladies' Books
  • Emily Dickinson

    Emily Dickinson

    760
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    Address Delivered the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    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

    Mark Twain

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Period: to

    1865 - 1914

  • John Greenleaf Whittier

    John Greenleaf Whittier

    Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl
  • Walt Whitman

    Walt Whitman

    One's-Self I Sing
  • Emma Lazarus

    Emma Lazarus

    1492
  • Ambrose Bierce

    Ambrose Bierce

    An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
  • Kate Chopin

    Kate Chopin

    Desiree's Baby
  • Edwin Arlington Robinson

    Edwin Arlington Robinson

    Richard Cory
  • Stephen Crane

    Stephen Crane

    The Open Boat
  • Paul Laurence Dunbar

    Paul Laurence Dunbar

    Sympathy
  • Booker T. Washington

    Booker T. Washington

    Up from Slavery
  • W.E.B. Dubois

    W.E.B. Dubois

    The Souls of Black Folk
  • Fundamentalism

    Fundamentalism

    The response of the church to modernism. Manifestations included: higher textual criticism of the Bible, social gospel, and urban revivalism.
  • Ezra Pound

    Ezra Pound

    Portrait d'une Femme
  • Robert Frost

    Robert Frost

    Mowing
  • Carl Sandburg

    Carl Sandburg

    Chicago
  • World War 1

    World War 1

    Global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918.
  • Period: to

    1914 - 1945

  • E.E. Cummings

    E.E. Cummings

    in Just-
  • Marianne Moore

    Marianne Moore

    Poetry
  • Langston Hughes

    Langston Hughes

    The Negro Speaks of Rivers
  • William Carlos Williams

    William Carlos Williams

    Spring and All
  • T.S. Eliot

    T.S. Eliot

    The Hollow Men
  • Willa Cather

    Willa Cather

    Neighbour Rosicky
  • Zora Neale Hurston

    Zora Neale Hurston

    How It Feels to Be Colored Me
  • Wallace Stevens

    Wallace Stevens

    The Snow Man
  • William Faulkner

    William Faulkner

    A Rose for Emily
  • World War II

    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

    Gwendolyn Brooks

    the mother
  • Period: to

    1945 - 2013

  • Elizabeth Bishop

    Elizabeth Bishop

    The Fish
  • Theodore Roethke

    Theodore Roethke

    Cuttings
  • Adrienne Rich

    Adrienne Rich

    Storm Warnings
  • Flannery O'Connor

    Flannery O'Connor

    Good Country People
  • Robert Hayden

    Robert Hayden

    Middle Passage
  • N. Scott Momaday

    N. Scott Momaday

    The Way to Rainy Mountain
  • Alice Walker

    Alice Walker

    Everyday Use
  • Gloria Anzaldua

    Gloria Anzaldua

    How to Tame a Wild Tongue
  • Billy Collins

    Billy Collins

    Forgetfulness