Author: D. Martin De Diego

Witnessing U.S. History Through Literature

By Tiffany Farrell Larbalestier, John Smith, Robert Beverley, William Bradford, Winthrop, John, Anne Bradstreet, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, James Fenimore Cooper, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams - undifferentiated, Abigail Adams, Philip Morin Freneau, John Jay, Olaudah Equiano, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Washington Irving, William T. Sherman, John Dos Passos, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Walt Whitman, O'Sullivan, John L., Juan Nepomuceno Seguín, Frederick Douglass, Harriet A. Jacobs, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Fitzhugh, Angelina Weld Grimké, John Greenleaf Whittier, Herman Melville, Stephen Crane, Louisa May Alcott, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Willa Cather, Bret Harte, Nat Love, Hamlin Garland, Black Elk, Rebecca Harding Davis, Edith Wharton, Hart Crane, Abraham Cahan, Carl Sandburg, Francis E. Watkins Harper, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Mark Twain, Steffens, Lincoln, Upton Sinclair, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Ernest Howard Crosby, Jose De Diego, E. E. Cummings, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Toni Morrison, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Clifford Odets, Meridel Le Sueur, John Steinbeck, Ralph Ellison, Genevieve Taggard, E. B. White, Leon Uris, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston, Countee Cullen, Martha Gellhorn, Elie Wiesel, John Hershey, Annie Dillard, Sloan Wilson, Jack Kerouac, Anne Moody, Arthur Miller, Tom Wolfe, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Judy Brady, Sandra Cisneros, Mary Crow Dog, Bob Dylan, David Halberstam, Tim O'Brien, Denise Levertov, Philip Roth and Robert Olen Butler