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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009

xxvii, 1095 s. : il. ; 26 cm

ISBN 978-0-674-03594-2 (váz.)

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Introduction - GREIL MARCUS and WERNER SOLLORS // 1507 The name “America” appears on a map - TOBY LESTER // 1521, August 13 Mexico in America - KIRSTEN SILVA GRUESZ // 1536, July 24 Alvar Núnez Cabeza de Vaca - I LAN 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 // 1643 A nearer neighbor to the Indians - TED WIDMER // 1666, July 10 Anne Bradstreet - WAI CHEE DIMOCK // 1670 The American jeremiad - EMORY ELLIOTT // 1670 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 // 1693-1694, March 4 Edward Taylor - WERNER SOLLORS // 1700 Samuel Sewall, The Selling of Joseph - DAVID BLIGHT // 1722 Benjamin Franklin, The Silence Dogood Letters - JOYCE E. CHAPLIN // 1740 The Great Awakening - JOANNE VAN DERWOUDE // Late 1740s; 1814, September 13-14 Two national anthems - JOHN PICKER // 1765, December 23 Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crěvecoeur - LEO DAMROSCH // 1773, September Phillis Wheatley - RAFIA ZAFAR // 1776 The Declaration of Independence - FRANK KELLETER // 1784, June Charles Willson Peale - MICHAEL LEJA // 1787 James Madison, Notes of the Debates in the Federal Convention - MITCHELL MELTZER // 1787-1790 John Adams, 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. March 4 Tefferson’s first inaumiral address // 1804, January The matter of Haiti - KAIAMA GLOVER // 1809 Cupola of the world - JUDITH RICHARDSON // 1819, February The Missouri crisis - JOHN STAUFFER // 1820, November 27 Landscape with birds - CHRISTOPH IRMSCHER //

1821 Sequoyah, the Cherokee syllabary - LISA BROOKS // 1821, June 30 Junius Brutus Booth - C0PPÉLIA KAHN // 1822 Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the Ojibwe firefly, and Longfellow’s Hiawatha - DAVID TREUER // 1825, November Thomas Cole and the Hudson River school - ALAN WALLACH // 1826, July 4 Songs of the republic - STEVE ERICKSON // 1826 Cooper’s Leatherstocking tales - RICHARD HUTSON // 1826; 1827 Transnational poetry - STEPHEN BURT // 1827 Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon - TERRYL L. GIVENS // 1828 David Walker, Appeal, in Four Articles - TOMMIE SHELBY // 1830, May 21 Jump Jim Crow - W. T. LHAMON, JR. // 1831, March 5 The Cherokee Nation decision - PHILIP DELORIA // 1832, July 10 President Jackson’s bank veto - DAN FELLER // 1835, January Democracy in America - TED WIDMER // 1835 William Gilmore Simms, The Temassee - JEFFREY JOHNSON // 1835 The Sacred Harp - SEAN WILENTZ // 1836, February 23-March 6 The Alamo and Texas border writing - NORMA E. CANTÚ // 1836, February 28 Richard Henry Dana, Jr. - KIRSTEN SILVA GRUESZ // 1837, August 15 Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar” - JAMES CONANT // 1838, July 15 “The Divinity School Address” - HERWIG FRIEDL // 1838, September 3 The slave narrative - CAILLE MILLNER // 1841 “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” - ROBERT CLARK // 1846, June James Russell Lowell’s Biglow Papers - SHELLEY STREEBY // 1846, late July Henry David Thoreau - JONATHAN ARAC // 1850 The Scarlet Letter - BHARATI MUKHERJEE // 1850, July 19 Margaret Fuller and the Transcendentalist Movement - LAWRENCE BUELL // 1850, August 5 Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville - CLARK BLAISE // 1851 Moby-Dick - GREIL MARCUS // 1851 Uncle Tom’s Cabin - BEVERLY LOWRY // 1852 Hawthorne’s Blithedale Romance and utopian communities - WINFRIED FLUCK // 1852, July 5 Frederick Douglass, “What to the slave is the Fourth ofjuly?” - LIAM KENNEDY //

1854 Maria Cummins and sentimental fiction - CINDY WEINSTEIN // 1855 Walt Whitman, 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, December 13 The journeys of Little Women - SHIRLEY SAMUELS // 1865, March 4 Lincoln’s second inaugural address - TED WIDMER // 1865 “Conditions of repose” - ROBIN KELSEY // 1869, March 4 Carl Schurz -MICHAEL BOYDEN // 1872, November 5 All men and women are created equal - LAURA WEXLER // 1875 The Winchester Rifle - MERRITT ROE SMITH // 1876, January 6 Melville in the dark - KENNETH W. WARREN // 1876, March 10 The art of telephony - AVITAL RONELL // 1878 “How to Make Our Ideas Clear” - CHRISTOPHER HOOKWAY // 1879 John Muir and nature writing - SCOTT SLOVIC // 1881, January 24 Henry James, Portrait ofa Lady - ALIOE CAGIDEMETRIO // 1884 Mark Twain’s hairball - ISHMAEL REED // 1884, July The Linotype machine USA - GITELMAN // 1884, November The Southwest imagined - LEAH DILWORTH // 1885 The problem of error - JAMES CONANT // 1885, July Limits to violence - JAMES DAWES // 1885, October Writing New Orleans - ANDREI CODRESCU // 1888 The introduction of motion pictures - JONATHAN LETHEM // 1889, August 28 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court - YAELSCHACHER // 1893 Chief Simon Pokagon and Native American literature - DAVID TREUER // 1895 Ida B. Wells, A Red Record - JACQUELINE GOLDSBY // 1896 Paul Laurence Dunbar, Lyrics of Lowly Life - JUDITH JACKSON FOSSETT // 1896, September 6 Queen Lili’uokalani - ROB WILSON // 1897, Memorial Day The Robert Gould Shaw and 54th Regiment Monument - RICHARD POWERS // 1898, June 22 Literature and imperialism - AMY KAPLAN // 1899; 1924 McTeague and Greed - GILBERTO PEREZ // 1900 Henry Adams - T. J. JACKSON LEARS // 1900 The Wizard of Oz - GERALD EARLY //

1900; 1905 Sister Carrie and The House of Mirth - EARAH JASMINE GRIFFIN // 1901 Charles W. Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition - JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN // 1901; 1903 The problem of the color line - ARNOLD RAMPERSAD // 1903, May 5 “The real American has not yet arrived” - AVIVA TAUBENFELD // 1903 The invention of the blues - LUCSANTE // 1903 One sees what one sees - DANIEL ALBRIGHT // 1904, August 30 Henry James in America - ROSS POSNOCK // 1905, October 15 Little Nemo in Slumberland - KERRY ROEDER // 1906, April 9 The Azusa Street revival - R.J. SMITH // 1906, April 18,5:14 a.m. The San Francisco Earthquake - KATHLEEN MORAN // “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” - PHILIP FURIA // 1912, April 15 Lifeboats cut adrift - ALAN ACKERMAN // 1912 The lure of impossible things - HEATHER LOVE // 1912 Tarzan begins his reign - GERALD EARLY // 1913 A modernist moment - BONNIE COSTELLO // 1915 D. W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation - RICHARD SCHICKEL // 1915 Robert Frost - CHRISTIAN WIMAN // 1917 The philosopher and the millionaire - RICHARD J. BERNSTEIN // 1920, August 10 Mamie Smith’s “Crazy Blues” - DAPHNE A. BROOKS // 1921 JeanToomer - ELIZABETH ALEXANDER // 1922 T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence - ANITA PATTERSON // 1923, October Chaplinesque - DAVID THOMSON // 1924 F. O. Matthiessen meets Russell Cheney - ROBERT POLITO // 1924, May 26 The Johnson-Reed Act and ethnic literature - YAELSCHACHER // 1925 The Great Gatsby - LAN TRAN // 1925, June Sinclair Lewis - JEFFREY FERGUSON // 1925, July The Scopes trial - MICHAEL KAZIN 584 // 1925, August 16 Dorothy Parker - CATHERINE KEYSER S88 // 1926 Fire!! - CARLA KAPLAN 593 // 1926 Hardboiled - WALTER MOSLEY 598 // 1926 The Book-of-the-Month Club - JOAN SHELLEY RUBIN 602 // 1927 Carl Sandburg and The American Songhag - PAUL MULDOON 607 // 1927, May 16 “Free to develop their faculties” - JEFFREY ROSEN 612 //

1928, April 8, Easter Sunday Dilsey Gibson goes to church - WERNER SOLLORS 617 // 1928, Summer John Dos Passos - PHOEBE KOSMAN 622 // 1928, November 18 The mouse that whistled - KARAL ANN MARLING 627 // 1930 “You’re swell!” - ROBERT GOTTLIEB 632 // 1930, March The Silent Enemy - MICAH TREUER 636 // 1930, October Grant Wood’s American Gothic - SARAH VOWELL 640 // 1931, March 19 Nevada legalizes gambling - DAVID THOMSON 644 // 1932 Edmund Wilson, The American Jitters - ANTHONY GRAFTON 649 // 1932 Arthur Miller - ANDREA MOST 654 // 1932, April or May The River Rouge plant and industrial beauty - JOHN M. STAUDENMAIER, S.J. // 1932, Christmas Ned Cobb - ROBERT CANTWELL // 1933 Baby Face is censored - STEPHANIE ZACHAREK // 1933, March FDR’s first Fireside Chat - PAULA RABINOWITZ // 1934, September Robert Penn Warren - HOWELL RAINES // 1935 The Popular Front - ANGELA MILLER // 1935 The skyscraper - SARAH WHITING // 1935, June 10 Alcoholics Anonymous - MICHAEL TOLKIN // 1935, October 10 Porgy and Bess - JOHN ROCKWELL // 1936 Gone with the Wind and Absalom, Absalom! - CAROLYN PORTER // 1936, July 5 Two days in Harlem - ADAM BRADLEY // 1936, November 23 Life begins -MICHAEL LESY // 1938 Superman - DOUGLAS WOLK // 1938, May Jelly Roll Morton speaks - MARYBETH HAMILTON // 1939 Billie Holiday, “Strange Fruit” - ROBERT O’MEALLY // 1939; 1981 Up from invisibility - JOSEF JAŘAB // 1940 “No way like the American way” - ERIKA DOSS // 1940-1944 Preston Sturges - DOUGLAS McGRATH // 1941 An insolent style - CARRIE TIRADO BRAMEN // 1941 Citizen Kane - JOSEPH McBRIDE // 1941 The word “multicultural” - WERNER SOLLORS // 1943 Hemingway’s paradise, Hemingway’s prose - KEITH TAYLOR // 1944 The second Bill of Rights - CASS R. SUNSTEIN // 1945, February Bebop - INGRID MONSON // 1945, April 11 Thomas Pynchon and modern war - GLENDA CARPIO // 1945, August 6, 10:45 a.m. The atom bomb - SHARON GHAMARI-TABRIZI //

1946, December 5 Integrating the military - GERALD EARLY // 1947, December 3 Tennessee Williams - CAMILLE PAGLIA // 1948 Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics - DAVIDA MINDELL // 1948 Saul Bellow - RUTH WISSE // 1949-1950 “The Birth of the Cool” - TED GIOIA // 1950, November 28 “Damned busy painting” - T. J. CLARK // 1951 A poet among painters - MARK FORD // 1951 The Catcher in the Rye - GISH JEN // 1951 James Jones, From Here to Eternity - LINDSAY WATERS // 1951 A soft voice - M. LYNN WEISS // 1952, April 12 Elia Kazan and the blacklist in Hollywood - MICHAEL VENTURA // 1952, June 10 C. L. R. James - DONALD E. PEASE // 1953, January 1 The song in country music - DAVE HICKEY // 1954 Wallace Stevens, Collected Poems - HELEN VENDLER // 1955, August 11 “The self-respect of my people” - MONICA L. MILLER // 1955, September 21 A. J. Liebling and the Marciano-Moore fight - CARLO ROTELLA // 1955, October 7 A generation in miniature - RICHARD CANDIDA SMITH // 1955, December Nabokov’s Lolita - STEPHEN SCHIFF // 1956, April 16 “Roll Over Beethoven” - JAMES MILLER // 1957 Dr. Seuss - PHILIP NEL // 1959 “Nobody’s perfect” - WILLIAM J. MANN // 1960 Psycho - WILLIAM BEARD // 1960, January More than a game - MICHAEL MacCAMBRIDGE // 1961, January 20 JFK’s inaugural address and Catch-22 - CHARLES TAYLOR // 1961, July 2 The author as advertisement - DAVID THOMSON // 1962 Bob Dylan writes “Song to Woody” - JOSHUA CLOVER // 1962 “White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art” - HOWARD HAMPTON // 1963, April “Letter from Birmingham Jail” - GEORGE HUTCHINSON // 1964 Robert Lowell, “For the Union Dead” - PETER SACKS // 1964, October 27 “The last stand on Earth” - GARY KAMIYA // 1965, September 11 The Council on Interracial Books for Children - DIANNE JOHNSON // 1965, October The Autobiography of Malcolm X - DAVID BRADLEY // 1968 Norman Mailer - MARY GAITSKILL //

1968, March The illusory babels of language - HAL FOSTER // 1968, August 28 The plight of conservative literature - MICHAEL KIMMAGE // 1969 Elizabeth Bishop, Complete Poems - LAURA QUINNEY // 1969, January 11 The first Asian Americans - HUA HSU // 1969, November 12 The eye of Vietnam - THIPHUONG-LAN BUI // 1970 Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker - CHERYL A. WALL // 1970; 1972 Linda Lovelace - ANN MARLOWE // 1973 Loisaida literature - FRANCES R. APARICIO // 1973 Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck - MAUREEN N. McLANE // 1975 Gayl Jones - ROBERT O’MEALLY // 1981, March 31 Toni Morrison - FARAH JASMINE GRIFFIN // 1982 Edmund White, A Boy’s Own Story - SARAH SHUN-LIEN BYNUM // 1982 Wild Style - HUA HSU // 1982 Maya Lin’s wall - ANNE M. WAGNER // 1982, November 8 Harriet Wilson - SAIDIYA V. HARTMAN // 1985, April 24 Henry Roth - MARIO MATERASSI // 1987 Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey - SEO-YOUNG CHU // 1995 Philip Roth - HANA WIRTH-NESHER // 2001 Twenty-first-century free verse - STEPHEN BURT // 2003 Richard Powers, The Time of Our Singing - GREIL MARCUS // 2005, August 29 Hurricane Katrina - GREIL MARCUS and WERNER SOLLORS // 2008, November 4 Barack Obama - KARA WALKER