1893: financial panic of 1893
1895: Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage: an episode of the American Civil War / Atlanta Compromise
1896: Plessy v. Ferguson: Landmark Supreme Court decision holds that racial segregation is constitutional, paving the way for the repressive Jim Crow laws in the South.
1897: The Klondike Gold Rush began in Alaska.
1898: Spanish-American War
1899: Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening
Early 1900's: Progressive era
1900: L. Frank Baum published The Wizard of Oz
1902: "To Build a Fire" by Jack London
1903: Jack London's The Call of the Wild
1909: NAACP founded
1910: Jack London's Burning Daylight
1914: WWI begins
The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature by 
The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature by 
Who Was Booker T. Washington? by Chapter four: Turn of the Twentieth Century and the Growth of Modernism (1893 - 1914)
The growth of African-American literary culture and Literature of the American West
The purpose of this organization is to promote interest in and knowledge of the eminent American author, Zane Grey and his works
Other authors
African American Literature Book Club
This is a site dedicated to books by and about African Americans.
African American Literature Online
This site serves as a comprehensive guide to African American Literature of the twentieth century.
American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
The narratives are part of the hypertext project at the University of Virginia.
Voice of the Shuttle - African American Literature
The Voice of the Shuttle is universally acclaimed as the most comprehensive site for literary information.
Western Writers of America; fiction and non-fiction
Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895–1941
John Claborn (2017)
