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Period: to
Slavery
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Period: to
Transcendentalist Movement
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The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
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The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
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The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
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The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
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Hop Frog by Edgar Allan Poe
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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville
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Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Walden by Henry David Thoreau
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Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
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Lincoln Assasination
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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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Huckleberry Finn
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Modernism
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The Theory of Relativity is Published
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
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Cubism Begins
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Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
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World War 1
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The Boxcar Children series - Gertrude Chandler Warner
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Hardy Boys Mystery Series - Franklin W. Dixon
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A Farewell to Arms by Earnest Hemmingway
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Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
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Great Depression Begins
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Nancy Drew debuts
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As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
by Zora Neale Hurston -
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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Anthem by Ayn Rand
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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Superman #1 Published
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The Wizard of Oz (Movie) - Victor Fleming
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Period: to
World War 2
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Batman #1 Published
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For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway
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Citizen Kane - Orson Welles
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
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The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
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The Pearl by John Steinbeck
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The Diary of A young Girl by Anne Frank
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A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
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1984 by George Orwell
George Orwell -
Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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Rebel Without A Cause released
starring James Dean -
Howl by Allen Ginsberg
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A Separate Peace by John Knowles
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Psycho
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To Kill a Mockingbrid by Harper Lee
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Berlin Wall
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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
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Assasination of John F. Kennedy
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Dr. Strangelove or; How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Selma to Montgomery March
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The Graduate
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2001: A Space Odyssey
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
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Woodstock Festival
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Toni Morrison's Career
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Love Story by Erich Segal
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The Godfather
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Watergate Scandal
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Star Wars
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Orientalism published
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
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Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews
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Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
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The Shining
shlardy -
Madonna's 1st Album
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The Terminator film released
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
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Dirty Dancing by Emile Ardolino
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Beloved by Toni Morrison
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Glory
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Goodfellas
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The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Jurassic Park
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Forrest Gump
Life is like a box of chocolates! -
Pulp Fiction
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Austin Powers; International Man of Mystery
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Titanic
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You were born
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Saving Private Ryan
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Britney Spears' 1st Album
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The Blair Witch Project
Directed by Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick -
the first iPod
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The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
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No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
