Book Events for Shirley.Samuels

1750s

• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

1757

• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

18th century

• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

19th century

• Moby Dick; or, the Whale by Herman Melville

American Civil War

• Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the American Civil War 1861-1865 by Alexander Gardner (1865)

American Revolution

• Liberty's daughters : the Revolutionary experience of American women, 1750-1800 by Mary Beth Norton (1783)
• Women of the Republic : intellect and ideology in revolutionary America by Linda K. Kerber (1783)

French and Indian War

• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• Incidents in the life of a slave girl by Harriet Jacobs

Harlem Renaissance

• Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Hurricane San Felipe Segundo

• Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1928)

Jazz Age

• Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Nat Turner Slave Insurrection

• Incidents in the life of a slave girl by Harriet Jacobs

Okeechobee hurricane

• Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1928)

Ratification of the Constitution

• The letters of the Republic : publication and the public sphere in eighteenth-century America by Michael Warner

Seven Years' War

• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

Slavery Abolition Act

• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (1833)

Spanish-American War

• The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture (Convergences: Inventories of the Present) by Amy Kaplan (1898)
• Cultures of United States Imperialism (New Americanists) by Amy Kaplan (1898)

Third Wave Feminism

• Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler