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1600-1800:
William Bradford
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
1800-1850:
Lewis & Clark
James Fenimore Cooper
Sojourner Truth
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1850-1865:
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Mary Chesnut
Abraham Lincoln
1865-1901:
Mark Twain
Willa Cather
Black Elk
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B Du Bois
Henry Adams
Edith Wharton
1901-1929:
Upton Sinclair
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Dreiser
Will Rogers
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
H.L. Mencken
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
1929-1945:
John Steinbeck
William Faulkner
Ayn Rand
Ernie Pyle
1945-1961:
Whittaker Chambers
Walter Lippmann
Jack Kerouac
1961-1975:
James Baldwin
Betty Friedan
Russell Kirk
William F. Buckley
David Halberstam
Neil Sheehan
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Select a work
1600-1800:
Mayflower Compact
Autobiography of
Benjamin Franklin
Common Sense
Declaration of
Independence
U.S. Constitution
1800-1850:
Journals of
the Expedition
Last of the Mohicans
Narrative of
Sojourner Truth
Nature
Walden
Declaration of
Sentiments
The Scarlet Letter
1850-1865:
Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A Diary from Dixie
Gettysburg Address
1865-1901:
The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
O Pioneers!
Black Elk Speaks
Up From Slavery
The Souls of Black Folk
The Education of
Henry Adams
Age of Innocence
1901-1929:
The Jungle
The Winning of
the West
Sister Carrie
The Cowboy Philosopher
on Prohibition
Their Eyes
Were Watching God
Montage of a Dream
The American Language
Deferred
The Great Gatsby
The Sun Also Rises
1929-1945:
The Grapes of Wrath
The Sound and
the Fury
The Fountainhead
Here is Your War
1945-1961:
Witness
Public Opinion
On the Road
1961-1975:
The Fire Next Time
The Feminine Mystique
The Conservative Mind
God and Man at Yale
The Best and
the Brightest
A Bright Shining Lie
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Select a place
1600-1800:
Plymouth, MA
Philadelphia, PA:
New Rochelle, NY
Montpelier Station, VA:
1800-1850:
Astoria, OR
Cooperstown, NY
Battle Creek, MI
Concord, MA
Seneca Falls, NY
Salem, MA
1850-1865:
Washington, DC
Cincinnati, OH
Camden, SC
Gettysburg, PA
1865-1901:
Hannibal, MO
Red Cloud, NE
Little Bighorn
Battlefield Ntnl Mnt, MT
Tuskegee, AL
Amherst, MA
Quincy, MA
Lenox, MA
1901-1929:
Chicago, IL
Medora, ND
Chicago, IL
Claremore, OK
Harlem, NY
Baltimore, MD
St. Paul, MN
Key West, FL
1929-1945:
Salinas, CA
Oxford, MS
Hollywood, CA
Dana, IN
1945-1961:
Washington, DC
Washington, DC
Lowell, MA
1961-1975:
Bronx, NY
Northampton, MA
Mecosta, MI
Washington, DC
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American Writers: a journey through history
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JUNE
4
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Cincinnati, Ohio
11
Mary Chesnut
A Diary From Dixie
Camden, South Carolina
18
Abraham Lincoln
The Gettysburg Address
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
25
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Hannibal, Missouri
JULY
2
Willa Cather
O Pioneers!
Red Cloud, Nebraska
9
Black Elk
Black Elk Speaks
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana
16
Booker T. Washington
Up From Slavery
Tuskegee, Alabama
W.E.B. Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk
Amherst, Massachusetts
23
Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams
Quincy, Massachusetts
30
Edith Wharton
& the Gilded Age Writers
Age of Innocence
Lenox, Massachusetts
AUGUST
6
Upton Sinclair
& The Muckrakers
The Jungle
Chicago, Illinois
13
Theodore Roosevelt
The Winning of the West
Medora, North Dakota
20
Theodore Dreiser
& the Chicago Group
Sister Carrie
Chicago, Illinois
27
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SEPTEMBER
3
No scheduled program on this date
10
Will Rogers
The Cowboy Philosopher on Prohibition
Claremore, Oklahoma
March-May
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