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Romanticism
Explored what it meant to be an American, an American artist. It also looked at American government and political problems -
Transcendentalism
Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that emerged in New England in the early to middle 19th century. -
Anti-Transcendentalism
Anti-Transcendentalism focused on the limitations of mankind, and its potential destructiveness of the human spirit. -
Realism
*fidelity in presenting the inner workings of the mind
* the analysis of thought and feeling -
The American Civil War
a civil war in the United States of America. The war was fought between the Southern Confederacy and the Northern Union. -
Regionalism
The artistic focus was from artists who shunned city life, and rapidly developing technological advances, to create scenes of rural life. -
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" Novel
Author: Mark Twain
Published by: Charles L. Webster & Co. -
Naturalism
*A more extreme, intensified version of realism
*Shows more unpleasant, ugly, shocking aspects of life -
"The Call of the Wild" Novel
Author: Jack London
Published by: The Saturday Evening Post -
World War I
a major war centered on Europe that began in the summer of 1914. The fighting ended in November 1918. -
"The Road Not Taken" Poem
Author: Robert Frost -
"God Bless America" Patriotic Song
Artist: Irving Berlin -
American Modernism
Includes art, architecture, literature, music and photography -
The Harlem Renaissance
a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement." Though it was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, many French-speaking black writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris were also influenced by the Harlem Renaissance. -
"Ulysses" (The Novel)
Author: James Joyce -
"I, Too, Sing America" Poem
Author: Langston Hughes -
"The Great Gatsby" Novel
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Published by: Charles Scribner’s Sons -
"Dreams" Poem
Author: Langston Hughes -
"Brave New World" Novel
Author: Aldous Huxley
Published by: Chatto and Windus, London -
"Their Eyes Were Watching God" Novel
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Published by: J.B. Lippincott, Inc. -
World War II
a global military conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, which involved most of the world's nations, including all of the great powers: eventually forming two opposing military alliances, the Allies and the Axis. -
"The Grapes of Wrath" Novel
Author: John Steinbeck -
The Beat Generation
a group of American post-WWII writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired. -
"The Cacher in the Rye" Novel
Author: J.D. Salinger
Published by: Little, Brown and Company -
"Lord of the Flies" Novel
Author: William Golding
Published by: Faber and Faber -
American Post-Modernism
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"I Want To Hold Your Hand" Song
Artist: The Beatles -
U.S. Space Shuttle Apollo 11 Lands on the Moon
The Apollo 11 space flight landed the first humans on Earth's Moon on July 20, 1969. The mission, carried out by the United States, is considered a major accomplishment in the history of exploration and represented a victory for the U.S. in the Cold War Space Race with the Soviet Union. -
Terrorist Attack on the Twin Towers
A series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City -
Barrack Obama's Presidency
the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. -
SF Giants World Series Champions
The Giant's win their first World Series trophy in San Francisco
