Modern America By MsCahill Jan 1, 1903 W.E.B DuBois publishes _The Souls of Black Folk_ Jan 1, 1914 Beginning of WWI in Europe Jan 1, 1916 Carl Sandburg publishes _Chicago Poems_ Jan 1, 1917 US enters WWI Jan 1, 1926 Langston Hughes publishes _The Weary Blues_ Jan 1, 1929 US Stock Market Crash Jan 1, 1940 Richard Wright publishes _Native Son_ Jan 1, 1949 _Death of a Salesman_ Arthur Miller's play opens on Broadway