A New literary history of America

1507: the name "America" appears on map / Toby Lester --

1521, August 13: Mexico in America / Kirsten Silva Gruesz --

1536, July 24: Alvar Nauanez 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 --

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 Witch Trials / Susan Castillo --

1693-1694, March 4: Edward Taylor / Werner Sollors --

1700: Samuel Sewall, the Selling Joseph / David Blight --

1722: Benjamin Franklin, The Silence Dogood Letters / Joyce E. Chaplin --

1740: the great awakening / Joanne Van Der Woulde --

Late 1740s; 1814, September 13-14: two national anthems / John Picker --

1765:, December 23: Michel-Gullaume Jean de Craevecoeur / Leo Damrosch --

1773, September: Phillis Wheatley / Rafia Zafar --

1776: the Declaration of Independence --

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 / Fran?cois Furstenberg --

1798: Mary Rowlandson and the Alien and Sedition Acts / Nancy Armstrong --

1798: American gothic / Marc Amfreville --

1801, March 4: Jefferson's first inaugural addresss/ Jan Ellen Lewis --

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 --

1822: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the Ojibwe firefly, and Longfellow's Hiawatha --

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; 1927: transnational poetry / Stephen Burt --

1827: Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon / Terry L. Givens --

1828: David Walker, Appeal, in Four Articles / Tommie Shelby --

1830, May 21: Jump Jim Crow / W.T. Hamon, 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 Yemassee / Jeffrey Johnson --

1835: the Sacred Harp / Sean Wilentz --

1836, February 23-March 6: the Alamo and Texas border writing / Norma E. Cantau --

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 Douglas, "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 --

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 --

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 of a Lady / Alide Cagidemetrio --

1884: Mark Twain's hairball / Ishmael Reed --

1884, July: the linotype machine / Lisa Gitelman --

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 / 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 --

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; 1905: Sister Carrie and 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, May 5: "the real American has not yet arrived" / Aviva Taubenfeld --

1903: the invention of the blues / Luc Sante --

1904, August 30: Henry James in America / Ross Posnock --

1905, October 15: Little Nemo in Slumberland --

1906, April 9: the Azusa Street revival / RJ Smith --

1906, April 18, 5:14 a.m.: the San Francisco earthquake / Kathleen Moran --

1911: "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 --

1921: Jean Toomer / Elizabeth Alexander --

1922: T.S. Eliot and D.H. Lawrence / Anita Patterson --

1923, October: chaplinesque / David Thomson --

1924: F.O. Mattiessen meets Russell Cheney / Robert Polito --

1924, May 26: the Johnson-Reed Act and ethnic literature / Yael Schacher --

1925: the Great Gatsby / Lan Tran --

1925, June: Sinclair Lewis / Jeffrey Ferguson --

1925, August 16: Dorothy Parker / Catherine Keyser --

1926: Fire!! / Carla Kaplan --

1926: hardboiled / Walter Mosley --

1926: the book-of-the-month club / Joan Shelley Rubin --

1927: Carl Sandburg and the American Songbag / Paul Muldoon --

1927, May 16: "free to develop their faculties" / Jeffrey Rosen --

1928, April 8, Easter Sunday: Dilsey Gibson goes to church / Werner Sollors --

1928, summer: John Dos Passos / Phoebe Kosman --

1928, November 18: the mouse that whistled / Karal Ann Marling --

1930: "you're swell!" / Robert Gottlieb --

1930, March: the silent enemy / Micah Treuer --

1930, October: Grant Wood's American Gothic / Sarah Vowell --

1931, March 19: Nevada legalizes gambling / David Thomson --

1932: Edmund Wilson, the American Jitters / Anthony Grafton --

1932: Arthur Miller / Andrea Most --

1932, April or May: the River Rogue 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, May: Jelly Roll Morton speaks / Marybeth Hamilton --

1939: Billie Holiday, "Strange Fruit" / Robert O'Meally --

1939; 1981: up from invisibility / Josef Jaerab --

1940: "no way like the American way" / Erika Doss --

1940-1944: Preston Sturges --

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 / David A. Mindell --

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, 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 --

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, March: the illusory babels of language / Hal Foster --

1968, August 28: the plight of conservative literature / Michael Kimmage --

1969: Elizabeth Bishop, Complete Poems --

1969, January 11: the first Asian Americans / Hua Hsu --

1969, November 12: the eye of Vietnam / Thi Phuong-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, Driving 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 --

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 But --

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.

1507, the name "America" appears on a map / Toby Lester -- 1521 Mexico in America / Kirsten Silva Gruesz -- 1536, Alvar Nunez 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 -- 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, Edward Taylor / Werner Sollors -- 1700, Samuel Sewall's "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 Crevecoeur / 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 -- 1787-90, John Adams's "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, Jefferson's first inaugural address / Jan Ellis Lewis -- 1804, The matter of Haiti / Kaima 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 / Coppelia Kahn -- 1822, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the Ojibwe firefly, and Longfellow's "Hiawatha" / Davie Treuer -- 1852, Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School / Alan 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's "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's "The Yemassee" / Jeffrey Johnson ; "The Sacred harp" / Sean Wilentz -- 1836, The Alamo and Texas border writing / Norma E. Cantu ; Richard Henry Dana, Jr. / Kirsten Silva Gruesz -- 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The American Schollar" / 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 --

1850, 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 / Winifried Fluck ; Frederick Douglass's "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" / Liam Kennedy -- 1854, Maria Cummins and sentimental fiction / Cindy Weinstein -- 1855, Walt Whitman's "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 2nd 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 Hoodway -- 1879, John Muir and nature writing / Scott Slovic -- 1881, Henry James's "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 ; Limits 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 literatuer / David Treuer -- 1895 / Ida B. Wells's "A Red Record" / Jacqueline Goldsby -- 1896, Paul Laurence Dunbar's "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 --

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 & 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 -- "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's "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. Mattiessen 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, "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 Mill / Andrea Most -- 1932, The River Rouge plant and industrial beauby / John M. Staudenmaiser, S.J. ; 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's "Strange Fruit" / Robert O'Meally ; Up from invisibility / Josef Jarab -- 1940, "No way like the American way" / Erika Doss -- 1940-44, 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 2nd 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's "Cybernetics" / David A. Mindell ; Saul Bellow / Ruth Wisse -- 1949-50, "The birth of cool" / Ted Gioia --

1950, "Damned busy painting" / T. J. Clark

1951, A poet among painters / Mark Ford ; "The Catcher in the Rye" / Gish Jen ; James Jones's "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's "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's "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 / Anne Marlowe

1973, Loisaida literature / Frances R. Aparicio ; Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the Wreck" / Maureen N. McLane

1975, Gayl Jones / Robert O'Meally

1981, Toni Morrison / Farah Jasmine Griffin

1982, Edmund White's "A Boy's Own Story" / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum ; "Wild Style" / Mua Hsu ; Maya Lin's wall / Anne M. Wagner ; Harriet Wilson / Saidiya V. Hartman

1985, Henry Roth / Mario Materassi

1987, Maxine Hong Kingston's "Tripmaster Monkey" / Seio Young Chu

1995, Philip Roth / Hana Wirth-Nesher

2001, 21st-century free verse / Stephen Burt

2003, Richard Powers's "The Time of Our Singing" / Greil Marcus

2005, Hurricane Katrina / Greil Marcus & Werner Sollors

2008, Barack O'Bama / Kara Walker.