The Amazing Timeline of American Literature

Do you like to meet new people? Do you like to read? Have you been looking for a way to date some American authors? Then you'll love this American Literature Timeline! Sorry about the pun earlier, I was looking for a funny way to introduce this timeline. I made this timeline video for several reasons, the first reason being that youtube didn't have one yet, I also wanted to find a concrete way to share all the amazing American authors I have learned about since August:

In the Fall of 2013, I took a course that discussed American Literature from the Civil War until now. As I was nearing the end of the course, I reached out to youtube in order to see if there was a timeline video that I could watch in order to help me properly place the authors I had been reading. When I couldn't find one, I decided that I should make one. I waited until after the Spring semester was over so that I could take the prequel course and come up with a semi-cohesive whole for American literature. I made a slide for each author with a selected work, an important quote from that work, the year, and a nifty picture of each author. I did one for each author with the exception of Herman Melville who gets two slides (I read "Benito Cereno" this semester and loved it so I wanted to place a slide for it, but somehow it didn't seem right to make an American Literature video without including Moby-Dick, so I kept both). I put some exciting instrumental music in the background as well, just to make things even more epic. I really enjoyed putting this together and I hope you enjoy it too