| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1622 | | Mourt's Relation published in London | | pilgrims, Bradford, Plymouth |
| 1637 | | Thomas Morton, "New English Canaan" | | maypole, pilgrims, Endicott, Hawthorne" |
| 1650 | | Anne Bradstreet, "The Tenth Muse" | | |
| 1661 | | George Bishop, "New England Judged" | This was a Quaker response to John Norton's "New England Rent," an apology for anti-Quaker laws. | Quaker |
| 1667 | | George Bishop, "New England Judged, II" | | Quaker |
| 1683 | | Mary Rowlandson's narrative | The birth of the "captivity narrative" as a American genre | Philip, women |
| 1692 | | Cotton Mather, "Wonders of the Invisible World" | | witch |
| 1695 | | Thomas Maule denounces Puritan leaders | | Quakers |
| 1700 | | Robert Calef, "More Wonders of the Invisible World" | Calef's critique of the trials focused on the credulity and worldly ambition of Cotton Mather. | witch |
| 1702 | | Cotton Mather publishes "Magnalia Christi Americana" | This immense history of New England includes biographical vignettes of early ministers and governors, but also stories of captivites and accounts of diabolical possession. | history, Puritans |
| 1702 | | John Hale publishes "A Modest Inquiry" | | witch |
| 1764 | | Thomas Hutchinson, "History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay" | An important early history by the later Loyalist governor. Dealt with witchhunting and with the banishment of his ancestor, Anne Hutchinson. | witch, antinomianism, loyalist |
| 1770 | | Phillis Wheatley, "Elegy for George Whitefield" | The British evangelist died at Newburyport, Mass. on September 30, 1770. | slavery, religion |
| 1773 | | Mary Rowlandson's narrative reprinted | | women, Philip" Philip |
| 1773 | | Phillis Wheatley, "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral" |
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| 1776 | | Samuel Hopkins, A Dialogue Concerning the Slavery of the Africans | An abolitionist argument ddressed to the continental congress. | abolition, Stowe |
| 1801 | | Reprint of French edition of Phillis Wheatley's poems | Wheatley's "Poems on Various Subjects" was included in Joseph Lavalee's "The Negro Equalled by Few Europeans," published in translation in Philadelphia | |
| 1802 | | Reprint of Phillis Wheatley's poems published in NH | | |
| 1814 | | Washington Irving, "Philip of Pokanoket" | An early, sympthetic account of King Philip | Indian, Philip |
| 1815 | | The Affecting Narrative of Louisa Baker | This was the first in a series of stories eventually gathered as "The Female Marine." | maritime |
| 1820 | | Cotton Mather's "Magnalia Christi Americana" reprinted | | witch, Puritanism |
| 1820 | | Witch of New England published | This anonymous work was only the first of several literary treatments of the seventeenth-century witch hunts. Like others, it emphasized the dangers of delusion. | |
| 1822 | | Timothy Dwight, "Travels in New England and New York" | | |
| 1823 | | Calef's "More Wonders of the Invisible World" reprinted | | witch |
| 1824 | | Lydia Sigourney, "Sketches of Connecticut Forty Years Since" | | |
| 1824 | | A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison published | | Indian |
| 1824 | | Lydia Maria Child, "Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times" | A distraught Puritan woman marries an Indian. | Indians |
| 1825 | | John Winthrop's "History of New England" reprinted | | Antinomianism, Puritanism, Hutchinson, Dyer |
| 1826 | | James Fenimore Cooper, "The Last of the Mohicans" | The trope of the disappearing Indian was already well-established by the time Cooper wrote. | Indian |
| 1827 | | James Fenimore Cooper, "The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish" | A little-known novel about King Philip's War | Indian, Philip |
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| 1827 | | Catharine Sedgwick, "Hope Leslie, or Early Times in Massachusetts" | Features a friendship between a Puritan woman and a Pequot woman. | Indian |
| 1827 | | Sarah Josepha Hale, "Northwood" | | Thanksgiving |
| 1829 | | William Apes publishes "A Son of the Forest" | | Indians, Mashpee |
| 1829 | | Charles Goodrich, "A History of the United States of America" | Like other writers of the early republic, Goodrich saw the Salem witch trials as a consequence of fanaticism and delusion. | |
| 1829 | | David Walker, An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World | Published in Boston by a southern black, Walker's "Appeal" helped to spark the abolitionist movement. | abolition, slavery |
| 1830 - 1870 | | Domestic fiction dominates literary market | Hawthorne both admired and denigrated these writers, referring to them "as damned, scribbling females. | |
| 1831 | | Charles W. Upham, "Lectures on Witchcraft" | An account by a Unitarian minister who used the Salem story to warn against the dangers of religious and political zeal. | witch |
| 1831 | | John Greenleaf Whitter, "Legends of New England" | Based on earlier stories written for newspapers, Whittier dealt with witch beliefs as a form of folklore. | |
| 1831 | | Nathaniel Hawthorne, "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" | This early story was re-published in 1852 | revolution |
| 1833 | | Lydia Maria Child, "An Appeal for that Class of Americans Called Africans" | Child, who had previously published fiction and a cookbook, The American Frugal housewife, became a prominent antislavery writer and activist. | antislavery, abolition |
| 1833 | | Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Last Leaf" | Describes antiquated survivor of revolution. | revolution |
| 1834 | | Whittier publishes "The Slave Ship" | | slavery, abolition, maritime |
| 1834 | | James Hawkes, A Retrospect of the Boston Tea-Party, with a Memoir of George R.T. hewes" | | revolution |
| 1835 | | Benjamin Bussey Thatcher, "Traits of the Tea Party; Being a Memoir of George R.T. Hewes" | | revolution |
| 1836 | | Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Maypole at Merrymount" | | maypole, Hawthorne |
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| 1837 | | Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Twice-Told Tales" | | |
| 1837 | | Sarah Grimke, "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes" | With her sister, Angelina, Grimke traveled throughout New England, meeting with female wage workers as well as abolitionists. | women's work |
| 1837 | | Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Endicott and the Red Cross" | | flag, cross, Endicott |
| 1837 | | Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar" | "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close." | |
| 1839 | | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Algic Researches | One of many ethnographic works published by the Indian agent and self-taught scientist, it contained a version of the myth of Hiawatha. | Indians |
| 1841 | | Catharine Williams, "The Neutral French, or the Exiles of Nova Scotia" | | |
| 1841 | | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Skeleton in Armor" | | bones, Indians |
| 1841 | | Catharine Beecher, "A Treatise on Domestic Economy" | | women's work |
| 1841 | | Longfellow, "The Wreck of the Hesperus," in Ballads and Other Poems | | maritime |
| 1842 | | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems on Slavery | | slavery, abolition |
| 1842 | | With the encouragement of his friend Charles Sumner, Longfellow publishes "Poems on Slavery | | |
| 1845 | | Frederick Douglas publishes his narrative. | He became a powerful voice in both the anti-slavery and women's rights movements. | slavery, abolition |
| 1846 | | Hawthorne, "Roger Malvyn's Burial" in Mosses From An Old Manse | Hawthorne's story built on an already existing romance about Lovewell's Defeat at Pigwacket in 1725. | Lovewell, Maine, bones |
| 1847 | | John Greenleaf Whittier, "Supernaturalism of New England" | | witch, folklore |
| 1847 | | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Evangeline" | | |
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| 1848 | | William Oakes, Scenery of the White Mountains | Oakes said that from one angle the profile resembled a "toothless old woman in a mob cap." From the best angle, however, it showed a man with character "fixed and firm." | old man, profile |
| 1848 | | Elizabeth Ellet. Women of the American Revolution | | |
| 1848 | | James Russell Lowell, "The Courtin'" | | |
| 1850 | | Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Scarlet Letter" | | |
| 1850 | | Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Great Stone Face" | | old man, profile" mountain |
| 1851 | | Herman Melville, "Moby Dick" | | maritime |
| 1851 | | Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" | | slavery, abolition |
| 1851 | | J.W. DeForest, "History of the Indians of Connecticut" | | |
| 1851 | | Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The House of the Seven Gables" | | witch Salem |
| 1853 | | Samuel Drake's edition of "Magnalia Christi Americana" | | |
| 1854 | | Lucy Larcom, "Hannah Binding Shoes" | | women's work, maritime |
| 1855 | | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Song of Hiawatha" | | |
| 1855 | | Herman Melville, "Tartarus of Maids" | In the 1850s, Melville published many short stories and sketches in Harper's and Putnam's magazines. | women's work |
| 1855 | | William C. Nell, "Colored Patriots of the American Revolution" | Among other stories, Nell featured the role of Crispus Attucks in the "Boston Massacre. | Attucks, Boston Massacre |
| 1856 | | Benjamin Willey, Incidents in White Mountain History | Earliest published version of a comment later attributed to Daniel Webster. ""Men put out signs representing their different trades; jewellers hang out a monster watch; shoemakers, a huge boot; and, up in Franconia, God Almighty has hung out a sign that in New England he makes men." | profile, old man |
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| 1857 | | John Greenleaf Whittier, "Skipper Ireson's Ride," | | maritime |
| 1858 | | Longfellow, "The Courtship of Miles Standish" | Longfellow's poem rivaled Thanksgiving in American memory and helped perpetuate the mystique of the spinning wheel. See The Age of Homespun, page 27. | poetry, pilgrims" plymouth |
| 1859 | | Harriet Wilson, "Our Nig, or Sketches from the LIfe of a Free Black" | | |
| 1859 | | Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Minister's Wooing | Stowe's hero was a Newport, Rhode Island minister named Samuel Hopkins. | Stowe, abolition, slavery |
| 1861 | | Longfellow publishes "Paul Revere's Ride" in Atlantic Monthly | | revolution |
| 1861 | | Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Under the Washington Elm" | | revolution |
| 1862 | | Hawthorne published "Chiefly About War Matters" in The Atlantic Monthly | The Liberator denounces the essay, noting that the anonymous author was reported to be Nathaniel Hawthorne. | Civil War |
| 1863 | | Longfellow , "Tales of a Wayside Inn" | | |
| 1864 | | Massachusetts Historical Society published Phillis Wheatley letters | | |
| 1866 | | John Greenleaf Whittier, "Snowbound" | | poetry |
| 1869 | | Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Old-Town Folks" | | |
| 1881 | | Controversy over John G. Whittier's "The King's Missive" | In letters to the Boston Daily Advertiser, Whittier and historian George Ellis argued over the imprisonment of Quakers in 17th century Boston. | Quaker, Whittier, poetry |
| 1887 | | Edward Bellamy, "Looking Backward" | | |
| 1893 | | Alice Morse Earle, "Customs and Fashions of Old New England" | | |
| 1902 | | Edith Wharton designs "The Mount" in Lenox, Massachusetts | | summer |
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| 1902 | | William Dean Howells purchases a summer home on Kittery Point, Maine | | summer |
| 1912 | | Robert Frost, "North of Boston" | | |
| 1915 | | Frank G. Speck, "Decorative Art of the Indian Tribes of Connecticut" | | |
| 1953 | | Arthur Miller, "The Crucible" | See Web links for Arthur Miller, "Why I wrote 'The Crucible': An artist's answer to politics." and for a Massachusetts curriculum project that connects Miller's play to Salem.
Additional Information | witch, Salem |
| 1992 | | The Last of the Mohicans filmed | | Indian |
| 1996 | | The Crucible filmed | | witch, Salem |
