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Literature

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  • Jan 1, 1492

    Christopher Colombus arrives in the Bahamas

  • Feb 15, 1493

    Christopher Colombus

    Letter to Luis de Santangel Regarding the First Voyage
  • Period: Jan 1, 1500 to

    Beginnings to 1700

  • Jan 1, 1526

    Spanish explorers bring first African slaves to south Carolina

  • Jan 1, 1539

    First Printing press in the Americas set up in Mexico City

  • Jan 1, 1542

    Alvar Nuñes Cabeza de Vaca

    The Relation of Alvar Nuñes Cabeza de Vaca

  • John Smith

    A Description of New England

  • Mayflower drops anchor in Plymouth Harbor

  • First Thnksgiving, at Plymouth

  • Immigration of English Puritans to Massachusetts Bay

  • Roger Williams

    A Key Into the Language of America

  • Anne Hutchinson banished from Bay Colony

  • King Philip's War

  • Anne Bradstreet

    Contemplations

  • William Penn Founds Pennsylvania

  • Salem Witch Trials

  • Period: to

    1700 - 1820

  • The Great Awakening Starts

  • Jonathan Edwards

    Sinners in the Hands of an Angy God

  • Richard Saunders (Benjamin Franklin)

    The Way to Wealth

  • Samson Occom

    A Short Narrative of My Life

  • Phillis Wheatley

    On Being Brought from Africa to America

  • Boston Tea Party

  • War for American Independence

  • Thomas Paine

    Common Sense

  • Declaration of Independence

  • U.S. Constitution adopted

  • George Washington elected first president

  • Olaudah Equiano

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

  • Washington D.C. established as U.S. capital

  • United States buys Louisiana Territory from France

  • Second War against England

  • Spain exchanges Florida fo U.S. assumption of $5 million in claims

  • Washington Irving

    Rip Van Winkle
  • Period: to

    1820 - 1865

  • William Cullen Bryant

    Thanatopsis

  • Santa Fe Trail open

  • Thomas Jefferson

    The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson

  • James Fenimore Cooper

    The Pioneers

  • Baltimore and Ohio, first U.S.

  • United States wages war against Mexico

  • "Trail of Tears"

  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    A Psalm of Life

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Self-Reliance

  • William Leete Stone

    The Life and Times of Red-Jacket

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne

    The Birth-Mark

  • Samuel Morse invents the Telegraph

  • Edgar Allan Poe

    The Raven

  • United States annexes Texas

  • California Gold Rush

  • Henrry David Thoreau

    Resistance to Civil Government

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • Herman Melville

    Bartleby, The Scrivener

  • Fanny Fern

    "Fresh Leaves, by Fanny Fern"

  • Walt Whitman

    Beat! Beat! Drums!

  • Civil War

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Battle of Gettysburg

  • Thirteenth Amendment abolishes slavery

  • Period: to

    1865 - 1914

  • Abraham Lincoln

    Second Inaugural Address

  • John Greenleaf Whittier

    Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl

  • Emma Lazarus

    In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport

  • Fourteenth Amendement African Americans citizenship

  • First Transcontinental railroad completed

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

  • Thomas Edison invents the elctric lightbulb

  • Vast Imigration from Europe strats

  • Mark Twain

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  • Statue of Liberty dedicated

  • Ambrose Bierce

    An Occurrence at Pwl Creek Bridge

  • Kate Chopin

    Desiree's Baby

  • Edwin Arlington Robinson

    Richard Cory

  • William Bradford

    Of Plymouth Plantation, from Book I

  • Stephen Crane

    The Open Boat

  • Spanish-American War

  • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

    Eliza Harris

  • U.S. population esceeds seventy-five million

  • Booker T. Washington

    Up From Slavery

  • W. E. B. DuBois

    The Souls of Black Folk

  • Ezra Pond

    In a Station of the Metro

  • Robert Frost

    Mending wall

  • Panama Canal Open

  • World War I

  • Period: to

    1914 - 1945

  • William Carlos Williams

    The Young Housewife

  • United States declares war on Germany

  • Carl Sandburg

    Grass

  • 19th Amendment gives woment the vote

  • E. E. Cummings

    in Just-

  • Marianne Moore

    Poetry

  • Langston Hughes

    The Negro Speaks of Rivers

  • T.S. Eliot

    The Hollow Men

  • Zora Neale Hurston

    How Ir Feels To Be Colored Me

  • Willa Cather

    Neighbour Rosicky

  • Great Depression Begins

  • Sinclair Lewis is first American to win Novel Prize for Literature

  • William Faulkner

    A Rose For Emily

  • Hitler begins armed control of Europe

  • Spanish Civil War

  • Edward Taylor

    Preparatory Meditations

  • World War II

  • Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor

  • Wallace Stevens

    Of Modern Poetry

  • Gwendolyn Brooks

    the mother

  • German forces surrender

  • Period: to

    1945 - 2014

  • Elizabeth Bishop

    The Fish

  • Theodore Roethke

    The Waking

  • Flannery O'Connor

    Good Country People

  • Emily Dickinson

    The Poems of Emily Dickinson

  • Robert Hayden

    Middle Passage

  • Adrienne Rich

    Snapshots of a Daughter-In-Law

  • King delivers "I Have a Dream" speech

  • Vietnam War

  • Sylvia Plath

    Lady Lazarus

  • National Organization for Women (NOW) founded

  • U.S. astronauts land on the moon

  • N. Scott Momaday

    The Way to Rainy Mountain

  • Alice Walker

    Everyday Use

  • Roe. v. Wade legalizes abortion

  • U.S. bicentenial

  • Equal Rights Amendment defeated

  • Gloria Anzaldua

    How to Tame a Wild Tongue

  • Congress passes Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

  • Billy Collins

    Forgetfulnes

  • World Wide Web introduced

  • Pathfinder robot explores Mars