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AN AGE OF EXPANSION. From romantiscism to realism; regionalism; the gilded age. NEW VOICES IN POETRY. Walt Whitman; Emily Dickinson; Sidney Lanier; CROSSCURRENTS: FREEDOM AND THE GILDED AGE. Walt Whitman; Henry Adams; George Washinton Cable; Booker T. Washinton. REALIST AND REGIONALISTS. Louisa May Alcott; Mark Twain; Red Cloud. THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. Henry Adams; Kate Chopin; Charles W. Chesnutt. CROSSCURRENTS: PROSPERITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE AT THE TURNO F THE CENTURY. Hamlin Garland; Mary Austin; T.S. Eliot. POETTS OF IDEA AND ORDER. Wallace Stevens; William Carlos Williams; Marianne Moore. A LITERATURE OF SOCIUAL AND CULTURAL CHALLENGE. Robinson Jeffers; Clude Mckay; E. E.Cummings. CROSSCURRENTS: THE JAZZ AGE AND THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE. James Weldon Jhonson; Jean Toomer; F. Scoot Fitgerald; SECOND WORLD WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH. Postwar drama; Postwar poetry; Postwar fiction. CROSSCURRENTS: THE AGE OF ANXIETY: POSTWAR MALAISE AND THE BEAT GENERATION. Lawrence Ferlinghitti; Rachel Carson. POETRY. Robert Penn Warren; Robert Hayden; Willian Stafford. FICTION. Eudora Welty; Ralh Ellison; Thomas Pynchon. A CENTURY ENDS AND A NEW MILLENNIUM BEGINS. Drama; Poetry; Fiction; Multiculturalism; timeline: a century ends and a new millennium begins. CROSSCURRENTS: THE AGE OF ANXIETY: VIETNAM, CIVIL RIGHTHS, AND THE WOMEN´S MOVEMENT. Bob Dylan; Martin Luther King, Jr; Tim O´brien. THE GLOBALIZATION OF AMERICA LITERATURA. Issac Bashevis Singer; Joseph Brodsky; Jhumpa Lahiri.