Cyca, M., & Cyca, M. (2023, July 12). 9 Facts about Native American Tribes. HISTORY. https://www.history.com/news/native-american-tribes-facts

Cyca, M., & Cyca, M. (2023, July 12). 9 Facts about Native American Tribes. HISTORY. https://www.history.com/news/native-american-tribes-facts

2200 B.C.—Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9)

1607—Early settlement at Jamestown 

Anne Bradstreet (poetry)

John Edwards -"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

Edward Taylor -"Huswifery"

1692: Salem Witch Trials

1741: Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

Church. “10 Things You Should Know about the Puritans.” Sam Storms: Oklahoma City, OK, 2018, www.samstorms.org/enjoying-god-blog/post/10-things-you-should-know-about-the-puritans.

Church. “10 Things You Should Know about the Puritans.” Sam Storms: Oklahoma City, OK, 2018, www.samstorms.org/enjoying-god-blog/post/10-things-you-should-know-about-the-puritans.

Historian, The. “10 Facts about the Enlightenment.” Have Fun with History, 25 Nov. 2023, www.havefunwithhistory.com/facts-about-the-enlightenment/.

Historian, The. “10 Facts about the Enlightenment.” Have Fun with History, 25 Nov. 2023, www.havefunwithhistory.com/facts-about-the-enlightenment/.

“The American Renaissance - Eastern.” Www.easternct.edu, www.easternct.edu/speichera/understanding-literary-history-all/the-american-renaissance.html.

“The American Renaissance - Eastern.” Www.easternct.edu, www.easternct.edu/speichera/understanding-literary-history-all/the-american-renaissance.html.

On the Freedom Side - Wesley Hogan 

Separate is Never Equal - Duncan Tonatiuh

Hassan, Rashid. “Worldwide Protests against Israel Demand End to War in Palestine, Lebanon.” Arab News, Arabnews, 6 Oct. 2024, www.arabnews.com/node/2574203/middle-east.

“Women’s Rights Groups Protest against Abortion Law in Poland.” Euronews, Euronews.com, 24 July 2024, www.euronews.com/health/2024/07/24/womens-rights-groups-protest-against-abortion-law-in-poland. Accessed 7 Oct. 2024.

Black Lives Matter - 2014 to present day

—"Rip van Winkle"

Emily Dickinson

—poetry

Walt Whitman

—Leaves of Grass

Edgar Allan Poe

—"The Raven"

Nathaniel Hawthorne

—The Scarlet Letter

Started January 24, 1848: California Gold Rush

https://1st-art-gallery.medium.com/12-interesting-facts-about-romanticism-art-f6e8d4231d07

https://owlcation.com/humanities/12-Facts-on-the-Industrial-Revolution

https://www.samstorms.org/enjoying-god-blog/post/10-things-you-should-know-about-the-puritans

https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-nathaniel-hawthorne

Arthur Miller - The crucible

https://owlcation.com/humanities/Facts-About-McCarthyism

https://owlcation.com/humanities/Facts-About-McCarthyism

Investigations of alleged communists

Hearings conducted by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).

As a boy, Cummings wrote a poem every day. The practice and experience from his childhood made him into the poet he became.

https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/seven-fun-facts-about-e-e-cummings/

Cummings first published poem came out in 1910. It was published in the Cambridge Review, a monthly magazine written by high school students.

https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/seven-fun-facts-about-e-e-cummings/

Cumming had joined the French ambulance corps during World War I. He spent three and a half months in a French military prison.

https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/seven-fun-facts-about-e-e-cummings/

Li-Young Lee attended the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Arizona, as well as the State University of New York at Brockport.

https://poets.org/poet/li-young-lee

Li-Young Lee has taught at many universities. Some of these include Northwestern University and the University of Iowa.

https://poets.org/poet/li-young-lee

https://poets.org/poet/li-young-lee

https://interestingliterature.com/2015/05/five-fascinating-facts-about-ezra-pound/

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word ‘whoops’ is first recorded in a letter written by Ezra Pound.

https://interestingliterature.com/2015/05/five-fascinating-facts-about-ezra-pound/

In 1907, Ezra Pound became professor of Romance Languages at Wabash Presbyterian College.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ezra-Pound

https://www.theartstory.org/movement/american-realism/

https://www.theartstory.org/movement/american-realism/

1861-1865

Reconstruction Era

1865-1877

Jack was given the name John Finney at birth. When he was three years old he was renamed Walter Braden Finney in honour of his father. Throughout his life, he was known as "Jack".

https://kids.kiddle.co/Jack_Finney

https://english.netmassimo.com/2012/07/16/time-and-again-by-jack-finney/

Finney's first article was titled "Someone Who Knows Told Me …". It was published in the December 1943 issue of Cosmopolitan. The article reflects the message of the Office of War Information's "Loose Lips Sink Ships" campaign of World War Two.

https://kids.kiddle.co/Jack_Finney

Susan Glaspell was an American dramatist and novelist who founded the Provincetown Players with her husband in 1915.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Susan-Glaspell

Glaspell graduated from Drake University in 1899. During college, she published a few short stories and worked as a college correspondent for a local newspaper. After graduating she became a reporter for the Des Moines Daily News.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Susan-Glaspell

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Susan-Glaspell

Sense of disillusionment and loss of faith in the "American Dream": the independent, self-reliant, individual will triumph.

Emphasis on bold experimentation in style and form over the traditional. Interest in the inner workings of the human mind.

Lorraine Hansberry
-A Raisin in the Sun

F. Scott Fitzgerald
-The Great Gatsby

William Faulkner
-"A Rose for Emily"

Eudora Welty
-"A Worn Path"

Robert Frost
-poetry

T. S. Eliot
-The Waste Land
-"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

John Steinbeck
-Of Mice and Men
-The Grapes of Wrath

Modern buildings started focusing on simplicity and functionality instead of fancy decorations. Many modernist buildings began to use more materials like glass and steel, giving them a sleek look.

https://www.astrosafe.co/article/modernism

Art and works saw a dramatic change during this period. New art styles began forming as people started experimenting and expressing themselves through art. One of the most influential artists during this time was Pablo Picasso.

https://www.astrosafe.co/article/modernism

World War I
1914-1918

The Great Depression
1929-1939

World War II
1939-1945

This decade saw the invention of the television. TV sets were bulky, blurry, and expensive. It took until the 1950s for TVs to become popular across the U.S.

https://blog.genealogybank.com/1920s-facts-interesting-important-historical-events.html

The most notable creator of the new style of music was Louis Armstrong. Jazz became the music of choice in the popular speakeasies. The older generation saw the Jazz genre as a representation of the sinful new era of the Twenties.

https://blog.genealogybank.com/1920s-facts-interesting-important-historical-events.html

In the midst of the great depression, Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was created. Released in 1937, this film would be the first of many Disney films to be released.

https://kids.kiddle.co/1930s

Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 brought the United States into the war. The day following the attack, the United States Congress officially declared war on Imperial Japan.

https://facts.uk/facts-about-the-1940s/

https://blog.genealogybank.com/1950s-fun-facts-pop-culture-historical-usa-trivia.html

One of the most critical events of the 1950s was the progress made by the civil rights movement. One of the highlights is the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling on the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case. This case stated that the racial segregation of blacks and whites into separate schools was unconstitutional.

https://blog.genealogybank.com/1950s-fun-facts-pop-culture-historical-usa-trivia.html

Black cultural movement in Harlem, New York
Some poetry rhythms based on spirituals and jazz, lyrics on the blues, and diction from the street talk of the ghettos. Other poetry used conventional lyrical forms

James Weldon Johnson

Claude McKay

Countee Cullen

Langston Hughes (poetry)

Zora Neale Hurston

In 1914, about 50,000 African Americans lived in Harlem. By 1930, Harlem had grown to a population of 200,000 African Americans. This event is called the 'Great Migration'.

https://www.softschools.com/facts/world_history/harlem_renaissance_facts/2890/

African American sports became popular during the Harlem Renaissance. Leagues were founded because white people did not allow African Americans to play in their leagues. In 1927, the New York Harlem Globetrotters were founded.

https://www.softschools.com/facts/world_history/harlem_renaissance_facts/2890/

"The New Negro Movement"
1919-1925

Prohibition
1920-1933

On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon. This gave the American people hope that the future would be brighter because their country had achieved this so-called impossible feat.

https://blog.genealogybank.com/1960s-facts-fun-interesting-historical-usa-trivia.html

The Civil Rights Movement gained more rights for African-Americans, and the US withdrew from the war in Vietnam. Life in the States began to look more positive. However, the Cold War continued.

https://transformationoftheamericandream.weebly.com/1970s.html#:~:text=Consequently%2C%20a%20part%20of%20the,cellphone%20was%20invented%20in%201969.

https://prezi.com/6er_-og3lxtu/american-dream-in-the-80s/

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls043407506/

The economy began to fall and the American dream seemed to be fading away. People began to put their hope on the next generation to do better and have a brighter future.

https://www.socialistalternative.org/why-we-need-a-labor-party/end-american-dream/

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/great-recession.asp

Influenced by studies of media, language, and information technology. Sense that little is unique; culture endlessly duplicates itself. New literary forms and techniques: works composed of only dialogue, or combining fiction and nonfiction, experimenting with physical appearance of their work.

Alice Walker

Wallace Stevens

e.e. cummings

Maya Angelou

Anne Sexton

James Baldwin

Richard Wright

Sandra Cisneros

Amy Tan

Postmodernism was a reaction against modernism. Modernism was based on idealism and reason, and postmodernism was born of scepticism and a suspicion of reason.

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/p/postmodernism

Jacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and theorist. His ideas had a large impact on critical theory in the twentieth century. They were very influential on the development of postmodernism. He questioned the conventional boundaries between the rational and irrational.

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/p/postmodernism

Korean War
1950-1953

Vietnam War
1954-1975

https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-silent-patient/summary

Through his timeline journey, I have seen how much literature has impacted our history. I have traveled from 2200 B.C. all the way to the present day and seen how man has formed history through stories and writing. Literature has caused revolution and peace. Writing is a powerful tool that has been used to shape the modern era into what it has become.