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Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
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American literature from 1865 to the present
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Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!"
Although it is difficult to put an exact date to this poem, it is lament for the killing of Lincoln and was first published in 1865. The style is conventional and therefore unlike much of Whitman's poetry (especially the poetry he is famous for today), but it was a popular poem and helped establish him as an important poet, Photo: Whitman at 37. 1855 steel engraving by Samuel Hollyer from a lost daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison. retrieved from Wikimedia Commons. 19 March 2014. -
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
After Lincoln is assassinated, Reconstruction continues, but not smoothly. Race will continue to be a defining feature of much of American life, and writers such as Charles W. Chesnutt will find a voice exploring the complex racial geography of American culture and politics. Photo: A. Lincoln by A. Gardner. 1863. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Retrieved from Wikimedia Commons. 18 March 2014. -
Slave Songs of the United States is published sometime in 1867
This collection was published by white abolitionists and represents an important archive of slave music,. Interest in slave life in antebellum South is reflected in much literature of the period, notalby in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, and is strong to this day, as is demonstrated by the the performance of "Roll Jordan Roll" in the movie Twelve Years a Slave. -
Karl Marx publ. Das Kapital (vol. I )
The writings of the German Karl Mark (1818-1883) are among the most consequential in the history of modern political thought. The Communist Manifesto (Das Kommunistische Manifest 1848) and Capital (Das Kaptial, four volumes from 1867 to 1894) are among Marx's best-known works and were soon after their publications tranlsated into English and made available in the United States
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