Final

Main

Civil War

1861 - 1865

Radical Republicanism, 13th amendment

1865 - 1866

Reconstruction

1865 - 1876

Manufacture of Artificial Dyes

1869

Grant is a terrible president, economic crisis

1873

Hayes v. Tilden Presidential Election

1876

Compromise of 1877

1877

First Film Recorded

1877

Of a galloping horse.

Alabama v. Pace

1883

anti-miscegenation law confirmed

World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago

1893

Plessy v. Ferguson

1896

"Separate but equal" doctrine confirmed

Spanish American War

1898

Boxer Rebellion

1901

Peak of US Immigration

1907

Beginning of WWI

1914

World War One

1914 - 1918

Rise of literary criticism and establishment of the canon

1920 - 1929

Great Depression

1929 - 1942

Popularization of 'talkies", films with dialogue

1930 - 1940

WWII

1939 - 1945

White Flight

1950 - 1960

Brown v. Board of Education

1954

Desegregation begins.

Civil Rights Act

1964

Decentering of literary criticism and expansion of the canon

1970 - 1980

Globalization

1970 - 1990

Arrival of the Information Age

1990 - 2000

Time Periods

Realism and Reconstruction

1861 - 1895

Naturalism

1895 - 1914

Modernism and Postmodernism

1914 - 2013

Authors and Works

Hiawatha published by Longfellow

1855

Leaves of Grass published by Walt Whitman

1855

Davis publishes Life in the Iron Mills

1861

Melville publishes the Portent

1866

Clarel published by Melville

1876

Emily Dickinson dies

1886

Gilman publishes the Yellow Wallpaper

1892

Crane publishes the Red Badge of Courage

1895

Wilmington Race Riots