Literary Time Periods (American)

Colonial Period

1607 - 1765

Colonial Period

1607 - 1765

Stamp Act

1765

Revolutionary/Early National Period

1765 - 1830

Revolutionary Age

1765 - 1790

Federalist Age

1790 - 1830

Romantic Period

1830 - 1865

American Civil War

1861 - 1865

Realistic Period

1865 - 1900

Naturalistic/Symbolistic Period

1900 - 1930

Period of Conformity & Criticism (Modernism and Consolidation)

1930 - 1960

Period of Confessional Self (Confession and Postmodernism)*

1960 - 1989 *note that this is the listing in "American Literature, periods of" the timeline shows this as 1960 to the present

Post-modern Period*

1990 - to the present *this is listed in "American Literature, Period of" and is not on the timeline at the end of the handbook

World War I

1914-1918

World War II

1939 - 1945

Korean War

1950 - 1953

Vietnam War

1963 - 1975

Mexican War

1846 - 48

American Revolution

1775 - 1785

Spanish American War

1898