Contributor
Marcus, Greil.
Imprint:Cambridge, MA : Belnap Press of Harvard University Press, c2009.
Descriptionxxvii, 1095 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Note:1507, the name "America" appears on a map / Toby Lester -- 1521, Mexico in America / Kirsten Silva Gruesz -- 1536, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca / Ilan 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 -- 1943, A nearer neighbor to the Indians / Ted Widmer -- 1666, Anne Bradstreet / Wai Chee Dimock -- 1670, The American jeremiad / Emory Elliott -- 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, 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 Der Woude -- Late 1740s, Two national anthems / John Picker -- 1765, Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur / Leo Damrosch -- 1773, Phillis Wheatley / Rafia Zafar -- 1776, The Declaration of Independence / Frank Kelleter -- 1784, Charles Willson Peale / Michael Leja -- 1787, James Madison's "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 / François Furstenberg -- 1798, Mary Rowlandson and the Alien and Sedition Acts / Nancy Armstrong -- 1798, American gothic / Marc Amfreville --
Note:1801, Jefferson's first inaugural address / Jan Ellen Lewis -- 1804, The matter of Haiti / Kaiama Glover -- 1809, Cupola of the world / Judith Richardson -- 1819, The Missouri crisis / John Stauffer -- 1820, Landscape with birds / Christoph Irmscher -- 1821, Sequoyah, the Cherokee syllabary / Lisa Brooks -- Junius Brutus Booth / Coppélia Kahn -- 1822, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the Ojibwe firefly, and Longfellow's "Hiawatha" / David Treuer -- 1852, Thomas Cole and the Hudson River school / Ian Wallach -- 1826, Songs of the republic / Steve Erickson ; Cooper's Leatherstocking tales / Richard Hutson -- 1826, 1927 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, Jump Jim Crow / W.T. Lhamon, Jr. -- 1831, The "Cherokee Nation" decision / Philip Deloria -- 1832, President Jackson's bank veto / Dan Feller -- 1835, "Democracy in America" / Ted Widmer -- William Gilmore Simms, "The Yemassee" / Jeffrey Johnson -- "The Sacred harp" / Sean Wilentz -- 1836, The Alamo and Texas border writing / Norma E. Cantú-- Richard Henry Dana, Jr. / Kirsten Silva Gruesz -- 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar" / James Conant -- 1838, "The Divinity School address" / Herwig Friedl The slave narrative / Caille Millner -- 1841, "The murders in the Rue Morgue" / Robert Clark -- 1846, James Russell Lowell's "Biglow papers" / Shelley Streeby -- Henry David Thoreau / Jonathan Arac --
Note:1850, "The scarlet letter" / Bharati Mukherjee -- Margaret Fuller and the Transcendentalist movement / Lawrence Buell -- Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville / Clark Blaise -- 1851, "Moby-Dick" / Greil Marcus -- "Uncle Tom's Cabin" / Beverly Lowry -- 1852, Hawthorne's "Blithedale romance" and utopian communities / Winfried Fluck -- Frederick Douglass, "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" / 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, The journeys of "Little women" / Shirley Samuels -- 1865, Lincoln's second inaugural address / Ted Widmer "Conditions of repose" / Robin Kelsey -- 1869, Carl Schurz / Michael Boyden -- 1872, All men and women are created equal / Laura Wexler -- 1875, The Winchester rifle / Merritt Roe Smith -- 1876, Melville in the dark / Kenneth W. Warren ; The art of telephony / Avital Ronell -- 1878, "How to make our ideas clear" / Christopher Hookway -- 1879, John Muir and nature writing / Scott Slovic -- 1881, Henry James, "Portait of a Lady" / Alide Cagidemetrio -- 1884, Mark Twain's hairball / Ishmael Reed -- The Linotype machine / Lisa Gitelman -- The Southwest imagined / Leah Dilworth -- 1885, The problem of error / James Conant --tLimits to violence / James Dawes -- Writing New Orleans / Andrei Codrescu -- 1888, The introduction of motion pictures / Jonathan Lethem -- 1889, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court / Yael Schacher -- 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 ; Queen Lili'uokalani / Rob Wilson -- 1897, The Robert Gould Shaw and 54th Regiment Monument / Richard Powers -- 1898, Literature and imperialism / Amy Kaplan -- 1899, "McTeague" [and] 1924, "Greed" / Gilberto Perez --
Note:1900, Henry Adams / T.J. Jackson Lears -- "The Wizard of Oz" / Gerald Early ; 1900, "Sister Carrie" [and] 1905, "The House of Mirth" / Farah Jasmine Griffin -- 1901, Charles W. Chesnutt, "The marrow of tradition" / John Edgar Wideman; 1901, 1903, The problem of the color line / Arnold Rampersad -- 1903, "The real American has not yet arrived" / Aviva Taubenfeld -- The invention of the blues / Luc Sante -- One sees what one sees / Daniel Albright -- 1904, Henry James in America / Ross Posnock -- 1905, "Little Nemo in Slumberland" / Kerry Roeder -- 1906, The Azusa Street revival / RJ Smith -- The San Francisco Earthquake / Kathleen Moran -- 1911, "Alexander's Ragtime Band" / Philip Furia -- 1912, Lifeboats cut adrift / Alan Ackerman -- The lure of impossible things / Heather Love -- Tarzan begins his reign / Gerald Early -- 1913, A modernist moment / Bonnie Costello -- 1915, D.W. Griffith, "The Birth of a Nation" / Richard Schickel -- Robert Frost / Christian Wiman -- 1917, The philosopher and the millionaire / Richard J. Bernstein -- 1920, Mamie Smith's "Crazy Blues" / Daphne A. Brooks -- 1921, Jean Toomer / Elizabeth Alexander -- 1922, T.S. Eliot and D.H. Lawrence / Anita Patterson -- 1923, Chaplinesque / David Thomson -- 1942, F.O. Matthiessen meets Russell Cheney / Robert Polito -- The Johnson-Reed Act and ethnic literature / Yael Schacher -- 1925, "The Great Gatsby" / Lan Tran -- Sinclair Lewis / Jeffrey Ferguson -- The Scopes trial / Michael Kazin -- Dorothy Parker / Catherine Keyser -- 1926, "Fire!" / Carla Kaplan -- Hardboiled / Walter Mosley -- The Book-of- the-Month Club / Joan Shelly Rubin -- 1927, Carl Sandburg and "The American Songbag" / Paul Muldoon -- "Free to develop their faculties" / Jeffrey Rosen -- 1928, Dilsey Gibson goes to church / Werner Sollors ; John Dos Passos / Phoebe Kosman -- The mouse that whistled / Karal Ann Marling -- 1930, "You're swell!" / Robert Gottlieb -- "The Silent Enemy" / Micah Treuer -- Grant Wood's "American Gothic" / Sarah Vowell -- 1931, Nevada legalizes gambling / David Thomson -- 1932, Edmund Wilson's "The American jitters" / Anthony Grafton -- Arthur Miller / Andrea Most -- 1932, The River Rouge plant and industrial beauty / John M. Staudenmaiser -- Ned Cobb / Robert Cantwell -- 1933, "Baby Face" is censored / Stephanie Zacharek -- FDR's first Fireside chat / Paula Rabinowitz -- 1934, Robert Penn Warren / Howell Raines -- 1935, The Popular Front / Angela Miller -- The skyscraper / Sarah Whiting -- Alcoholics Anonymous / Michael Tolkin -- "Porgy and Bess" / John Rockwell -- 1936, "Gone with the Wind" and "Absalom, Absalom!" / Carolyn Porter -- Two days in Harlem / Adam Bradley -- "Life" begins / Michael Lesy -- 1938, Superman / Douglas Wolk Jelly Roll Morton speaks / Marybeth Hamilton -- 1939, Billie Holiday, "Strange fruit" / Robert O'Meally -- Up from invisibility / Josef Jarab -- 1940, "No way like the American way" / Erika Doss -- 1940-1944, Preston Sturges / Douglas McGrath -- 1941, An insolent style / Carrie Tirado Bramen -- "Citizen Kane" / Joseph McBride -- The word "multicultural" / Werner Sollors -- 1943, Hemmingway's paradise, Hemingway's prose / Keith Taylor -- 1944, The second Bill of Rights / Cass R. Sunstein -- 1945, Bebop / Ingrid Monson -- Thomas Pynchon and modern war / Glenda Carpio -- The atom bomb / Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi -- 1946, Integrating the military / Gerald Early -- 1947, Tennessee Williams / Camille Paglia -- 1948, Norbert Wiener, "Cybernetics" / David A. Mindell -- Saul Bellow / Ruth Wisse -- 1949-1950, "The birth of cool" / Ted Gioia --
Note:1950, "Damned busy painting" / T.J. Clark -- 1951, A poet among painters / Mark Ford -- "The Catcher in the Rye" / Gish Jen -- James Jones, "From Here to Eternity" / Lindsay Waters -- A soft voice / M. Lynn Weiss -- 1952, Elia Kazan and the blacklist in Hollywood / Michael Ventura C.L.R. James / Donald E. Pease -- 1953, The song in country music / Dave Hickey -- 1954, Wallace Stevens, "Collected poems" / Helen Vendler -- 1955, "The self-respect of my people" / Monica L. Miller -- A.J. Liebling and the Marciano-Moore fight / Carlo Rotella -- A generation in miniature / Richard Candida Smith ; Nabokov's "Lolita" / Stephen Schiff -- 1956, "Roll over Beethoven" / James Miller -- 1957, Dr. Seuss / Philip Nel -- 1959, "Nobody's perfect" / William J. Mann -- 1960, "Psycho" / William Beard -- More than a game / Michael MacCambridge -- 1961, JFK's inaugural address and "Catch-22" / Charles Taylor -- The author as advertisement / David Thomson -- 1962, Bob Dylan writes "Song to Woody" / Joshua Clover -- "White elephant art vs. termite art" / Howard Hampton -- 1963, "Letter from Birmingham Jail" / George Hutchinson -- 1964, Robert Lowell's "For the Union dead" / Peter Sacks -- "The last stand on earth" / Gary Kamiya -- 1965, The Council on Interracial Books for Children / Dianne Johnson -- "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" / David Bradley -- 1968, Norman Mailer / Mary Gaitskill -- The illusory babels of language / Hal Foster -- The plight of conservative literature / Michael Kimmage -- 1969, Eilzabeth Bishop, "Complete poems" / Laura Quinney -- The first Asian Americans / Hua Hsu -- The eye of Vietnam / Thi Phuong-Lan Bui -- 1970, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker / Cheryl A. Wall -- Linda Lovelace / Ann Marlowe -- 1973, Loisaida literature / Frances R. Aparicio -- Adrienne Rich,"Diving into the Wreck" / Maureen N. McLane -- 1975, Gayl Jones / Robert O'Meally -- 1981, Toni Morrison / Farah Jasmine Griffin -- 1982, Edmund White, "A Boy's Own Story" / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum "Wild Style" / Hua 1987, Maxine Hong Kingston's "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, Hurricane Katrina / Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors -- 2008, Barack Obama / Kara Walker.
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