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1507, the name "America" appears on a map / Toby Lester
1521 Mexico in America / Kirsten Silva Gruesz
1536, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca / Ilan Stavans
1585, "Counterfeited according to the truth" / Michael Gaudio
1607, Fear and love in the Virginia colony / Adam Goodheart
1630, A city upon a hill / Elizabeth Winthrop
A nearer neighbor to the Indians / Ted Widmer
1666, Anne Bradstreet / Wai Chee Dimock
1670, The American jeremiad / Emory Elliott ; The stamp of God's image / Jason D. LaFountain
1673, The Jesuit relations / Laurent Dubois
1683, Francis Daniel Pastorius / Alfred L. Brophy
1692, The Salem witchcraft trials / Susan Castillo
1693, Edward Taylor / Werner Sollors
1700, Samuel Sewall's "The selling of Joseph" / David Blight
1722, Benjamin Franklin, the Silence Dogood letters / Joyce E. Chaplin
1740, The Great Awakening / Joanne Van Der Woude
Late 1740s, Two national anthems / John Picker
1765, Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur / Leo Damrosch
1773, Phillis Wheatley / Rafia Zafar
1776, The Declaration of Independence / Frank Kelleter
1784, Charles Willson Peale / Michael Leja
1787, James Madison's "Notes of the debates in the federal convention" / Mitchell Meltzer
1787-90, John Adams's "Discourses on Davila" / John Diggins
1791, Philip Freneau and "The National Gazette" / Jeffrey L. Pasley
1796, Washington's farewell address / Francois Furstenberg
1798, Mary Rowlandson and the Alien and Sedition Acts / Nancy Armstrong
1798, American Gothic / Marc Amfreville


1801, Jefferson's first inaugural address / Jan Ellis Lewis
1804, The matter of Haiti / Kaima Glover - 1809, Cupola of the world / Judith Richardson
1819, The Missouri crisis / John Stauffer
1820, Landscape with birds / Christoph Irmscher
1821, Sequoyah, the Cherokee syllabary / Lisa Brooks ; Junius Brutus Booth / Coppelia Kahn
1822, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the Ojibwe firefly, and Longfellow's "Hiawatha" / Davie Treuer
1852, Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School / Alan Wallach
1826, Songs of the republic / Steve Erickson
Cooper's Leatherstocking tales / Richard Hutson
1826-1927 Transnational poetry / Stephen Burt
1827, Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon / Terryl L. Givens
1828, David Walker's "Appeal, in four articles" / Tommie Shelby
1830, Jump Jim Crow / W. T. Lhamon, Jr.
1831, The "Cherokee Nation" decision / Philip Deloria
1832, President Jackson's bank veto / Dan Feller
1835, "Democracy in America" / Ted Widmer ; William Gilmore Simms's "The Yemassee" / Jeffrey Johnson ; "The Sacred harp" / Sean Wilentz
1836, The Alamo and Texas border writing / Norma E. Cantu ; Richard Henry Dana, Jr. / Kirsten Silva Gruesz
1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The American Schollar" / James Conant
1838, "The Divinity School Address / Herwig Friedl ; The slave narrative / Caille Millner
1841, "The murders in the Rue Morgue" / Robert Clark
1846, James Russell Lowell's "Biglow papers" / Shelley Streeby ; Henry David Thoreau / Jonathan Arac


1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville / Clark Blaise
1851, "Moby-Dick" / Greil Marcus ; "Uncle Tom's Cabin" / Beverly Lowry
1852, Hawthorne's "Blithedale romance" and utopian communities / Winifried Fluck ; Frederick Douglass's "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" / Liam Kennedy
1854, Maria Cummins and sentimental fiction / Cindy Weinstein
1855, Walt Whitman's "Leaves of grass" / Angus Fletcher
1858, The Lincoln-Douglas debates / Michael T. Gilmore
1859, The science of the Indian / Scott Richard Lyons
1861, Emily Dickinson / Susan Stewart
1862, The journeys of "Little women" / Shirley Samuels
1865, Lincoln's 2nd inaugural address / Ted Widmer ; "Conditions of repose" / Robin Kelsey
1869, Carl Schurz / Michael Boyden
1872, All men and women are created equal / Laura Wexler
1875, The Winchester rifle / Merritt Roe Smith
1876, Melville in the dark / Kenneth W. Warren ; The art of telephony / Avital Ronell
1878, "How to make our ideas clear" / Christopher Hoodway
1879, John Muir and nature writing / Scott Slovic
1881, Henry James's "Portait of a Lady" / Alide Cagidemetrio
1884, Mark Twain's hairball / Ishmael Reed ; The linotype machine / Lisa Gitelman ; The Southwest imagined / Leah Dilworth
1885, The problem of error / James Conant ; Limits to violence / James Dawes ; Writing New Orleans / Andrei Codrescu
1888, The introduction of motion pictures / Jonathan Lethem
1889, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Yael Schacher
1893, Chief Simon Pokagon and Native American literatuer / David Treuer
1895 / Ida B. Wells's "A Red Record" / Jacqueline Goldsby
1896, Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Lyrics of lowly life" / Judith Jackson Fossett ; Queen Lili'uokalani / Rob Wilson
1897, The Robert Gould Shaw and 54th Regiment Monument / Richard Powers
1898, Literature and imperialism / Amy Kaplan
1899, "McTeague" and 1924, "Greed" / Gilberto Perez


1900, Henry Adams / T. J. Jackson Lears ; "The Wizard of Oz" / Gerald Early ; 1900, "Sister Carrie" and 1905, "The House of Mirth" / Farah Jasmine Griffin
1901 & 1903, The problem of the color line / Arnold Rampersad
1903, "The real American has not yet arrived" / Aviva Taubenfeld ; The invention of the blues / Luc Sante ; One sees what one sees / Daniel Albright
1904, Henry James in America / Ross Posnock
1905, "Little Nemo in Slumberland" / Kerry Roeder ; 1906, The Azusa Street revival / RJ Smith ; The San Francisco Earthquake / Kathleen Moran
"Alexander's Ragtime Band" / Philip Furia
1912, Lifeboats cut adrift / Alan Ackerman ; The lure of impossible things / Heather Love ; Tarzan begins his reign / Gerald Early
1913, A modernist moment / Bonnie Costello
1915, D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" / Richard Schickel ; Robert Frost / Christian Wiman
1917, The philosopher and the millionaire / Richard J. Bernstein
1920, Mamie Smith's "Crazy Blues" / Daphne A. Brooks
1921, Jean Toomer / Elizabeth Alexander
1922, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence / Anita Patterson
1923, Chaplinesque / David Thomson
1942, F. O. Mattiessen meets Russell Cheney / Robert Polito ; The Johnson-Reed Act and ethnic literature / Yael Schacher
1925, "The Great Gatsby" / Lan Tran ; Sinclair Lewis / Jeffrey Ferguson ; The Scopes trial / Michael Kazin ; Dorothy Parker / Catherine Keyser
1926, "Fire!" / Carla Kaplan ; Hardboiled / Walter Mosley ; The Book-of-the-Month Club / Joan Shelly Rubin
1927, Carl Sandburg and "The American Songbag" / Paul Muldoon ; "Free to develop their faculties" / Jeffrey Rosen
1928, Dilsey Gibson goes to church / Werner Sollors ; John Dos Passos / Phoebe Kosman ; The mouse that whistled / Karal Ann Marling
1930, "The Silent Enemy" / Micah Treuer ; Grant Wood's "American Gothic" / Sarah Vowell
1931, Nevada legalizes gambling / David Thomson
1932, Edmund Wilson's "The American jitters" / Anthony Grafton ; Arthur Mill / Andrea Most
1932, The River Rouge plant and industrial beauby / John M. Staudenmaiser, S.J. ; Ned Cobb / Robert Cantwell
1933, "Baby Face" is censored / Stephanie Zacharek ; FDR's first Fireside Chat / Paula Rabinowitz
1934, Robert Penn Warren / Howell Raines
1935, The Popular Front / Angela Miller ; The skyscraper / Sarah Whiting ; Alcoholics Anonymous / Michael Tolkin ; "Porgy and Bess" / John Rockwell
1936, "Gone with the Wind" and "Absalom, Absalom!" / Carolyn Porter ; Two days in Harlem / Adam Bradley ; "Life" begins / Michael Lesy
1938, Superman / Douglas Wolk ; Jelly Roll Morton speaks / Marybeth Hamilton
1939, Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" / Robert O'Meally ; Up from invisibility / Josef Jarab
1940, "No way like the American way" / Erika Doss
1940-44, Preston Sturges / Douglas McGrath
1941, An insolent style / Carrie Tirado Bramen ; "Citizen Kane" / Joseph McBride ; The word "multicultural" / Werner Sollors
1943, Hemmingway's paradise, Hemingway's prose / Keith Taylor
1944, The 2nd Bill of Rights / Cass R. Sunstein
1945, Bebop / Ingrid Monson ; Thomas Pynchon and modern war / Glenda Carpio ; The atom bomb / Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi
1946, Integrating the military / Gerald Early
1947, Tennessee Williams / Camille Paglia
1948, Norbert Wiener's "Cybernetics" / David A. Mindell ; Saul Bellow / Ruth Wisse
1949-50, "The birth of cool" / Ted Gioia


1950, "Damned busy painting" / T. J. Clark
1951, A poet among painters / Mark Ford ; "The Catcher in the Rye" / Gish Jen ; James Jones's "From Here to Eternity" / Lindsay Waters ; A soft voice / M. Lynn Weiss
1952, Elia Kazan and the blacklist in Hollywood / Michael Ventura ; C. L. R. James / Donald E. Pease
1953, The song in country music / Dave Hickey
1954, Wallace Stevens's "Collected poems" / Helen Vendler
1955, "The self-respect of my people" / Monica L. Miller ; A. J. Liebling and the Marciano-Moore fight / Carlo Rotella ; A generation in miniature / Richard Candida Smith ; Nabokov's "Lolita" / Stephen Schiff
1956, "Roll Over Beethoven" / James Miller
1957, Dr. Seuss / Philip Nel
1959, "Nobody's perfect" / William J. Mann
1960, "Psycho" / William Beard ; More than a game / Michael MacCambridge
1961, JFK's inaugural address and "Catch-22" / Charles Taylor ; The author as advertisement / David Thomson
1962, Bob Dylan writes "Song to Woody" / Joshua Clover ; "White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art" / Howard Hampton
1963, "Letter from Birmingham Jail" / George Hutchinson
1964, Robert Lowell's "For the Union Dead" / Peter Sacks ; "The last stand on earth" / Gary Kamiya
1965, The Council on Interracial Books for Children / Dianne Johnson ; "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" / David Bradley
1968, Norman Mailer / Mary Gaitskill ; The illusory babels of language / Hal Foster ; The plight of conservative literature / Michael Kimmage
1969, Eilzabeth Bishop's "Complete poems" / Laura Quinney ; The first Asian Americans / Hua Hsu ; The eye of Vietnam / Thi Phuong-Lan Bui
1970, Maya Angelou, Toni MOrrison, Alice Walker / Cheryl A. Wall ; Linda Lovelace / Anne Marlowe
1973, Loisaida literature / Frances R. Aparicio ; Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the Wreck" / Maureen N. McLane
1975, Gayl Jones / Robert O'Meally
1981, Toni Morrison / Farah Jasmine Griffin
1982, Edmund White's "A Boy's Own Story" / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum ; "Wild Style" / Mua Hsu ; Maya Lin's wall / Anne M. Wagner ; Harriet Wilson / Saidiya V. Hartman
1985, Henry Roth / Mario Materassi
1987, Maxine Hong Kingston's "Tripmaster Monkey" / Seio Young Chu
1995, Philip Roth / Hana Wirth-Nesher
2001, 21st-century free verse / Stephen Burt
2003, Richard Powers's "The Time of Our Singing" / Greil Marcus
2005, Hurricane Katrina / Greil Marcus & Werner Sollors
2008, Barack O'Bama / Kara Walker.

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