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American Literature, Eras and Modes

American Literature Timeline (Developing)
Am Lit Timeline + Some Brit Lit and Presidents (Developing)

Links After 1860

Realism Slides from Class


Beginnings to 1865, Roughly Chronological Order

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)

Bartolome de las Casas (1474-1566)

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490-1558)

Thomas Harriot (c. 1560-1621)

William Bradford (1590-1657)

Anne Bradstreet
(c. 1612-1672)
AnneBradstreet.com (fan site, some online poems)

Mary Rowlandson (c. 1636-1711)

Edward Taylor (c. 1642-1729)

Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727)
e-Texts
The Private Journal... (G. Books)
Excerpt from History Matters

"Sarah Kemble Knight" (Heath)

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Declaration of Independence" (YouTube/Hollywood)
"The Declaration of Independence" (USHistory.org)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Herman Melville (1819-1891)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897)

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

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