| Buren, President, 1837. |
| Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella, 1837. | Ware's Zenobia, 1837. | Whittier's
Poems, 1837. | Carlyle's French Revolution, 1837. | Victoria, Queen of England, 1837. |
| Emerson's The
American Scholar, 1837. | Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, 1838. | Whittier's Ballads, etc., 1838. | Lockhart's Life of Scott, 1837. | The Dial, 1840-1844. |
| Essays (1st Series), 1841. | Ware's Aurelian, 1838. | Longfellow's Voices of the Night 1839. | Nicholas Nickleby, 1838. | Population of U.S. (1840), 17,068,355. |
| Prescott's Conquest of Mexico 1843. | Longfellow's Hyperion, 1839. | Ballads and Other Poems, 1841. | Browning's Sordello, 1840. | Brook Farm, 1840. |
| Emerson's Essays (2d Series), 1844. | Cooper's Pathfinder,
1840. | Lowell's A Year's Life, 1841. | Old Curiosity Shop, 1840. | Harrison, President, 1841. |
| Taylor's Views
Afoot, 1846. | Poe's Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 1840. | Longfellow's The Spanish Student,
1843. | Browning's Pippa Passes, 1841 | Tyler, President, 1841. |
| Prescott's Conquest of Peru, 1847. | Cooper's Deerslayer, 1841. | Whittier's Lays of my Home, 1843. | Carlyle's Heroes, 1841. | University
of Michigan opened, 1841. |
| Poe's Eureka, 1848. | Ware's Julian, 1841. | Poe's Raven, 1845. | Barnaby
Rudge, 1841. | Wordsworth, Poet-Laureate, 1843. |
| Whipple's Essays and Reviews, 1848. | Cooper's Wing-
and-Wing, 1842. | Holmes's Poems 1846. | Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, 1842. | Webster's Speeches
at Bunker Hill Monument and Plymouth, 1843. |
| Irving's Goldsmith, 1849. | Twice-Told Tales, 1842. | Longfellow's
Belfry of Bruges, 1847. | Tennyson's Poems, 1842. | Polk, President, 1845. |
| Parkman's The Oregon
Trail, 1849. | Simms's Beauchampe, 1842. | Emerson's Poems, 1847. | Dickens's Christmas Carol, 1843 | War with Mexico, 1845. |
| Thoreau's Week on the Concord and Merrimack, 1849. | Mosses from an Old
Manse 1846. | Longfellow's Evangeline, 1847. | Ruskin's Modern Painters (vol. i), 1843. | Peace with
Mexico, 1848. |
| Whipple's Literature and Life, 1849. | Melville's Typee, 1846. | Lowell's Biglow Papers,
1848. | Carlyle's Cromwell, 1845. | Gold discovered in California, 1848. |
| Emerson's Representative Men,
1850. | Omoo, 1847. | Fable for Critics, 1848. | Dombey and Son, 1846. | Taylor, President, 1849. |
| Irving's
Mahomet, 1850. | Longfellow's Kavanagh, 1849. | Vision of Sir Launfal, 1848. | C. Brontë's Jane Eyre,
1847. | Tennyson, Poet-Laureate, 1850. |
| Mitchell's Reveries of a Bachelor, 1850. | The Scarlet Letter,
1850. | Poems by Alice and Phoebe Cary, 1849. | Tennyson's The Princess, 1847. | Harper's Magazine,
1850. |
| Curtis's Nile Notes of a Howadji, 1851. | Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World, 1850. | Whittier's
Voices of Freedom, 1849. | Vanity Fair, 1847. | Population of U.S. (1850), 23,263,485. |
| Mitchell's Dream
Life, 1851. | House of Seven Gables, 1851. | Longfellow's Seaside and Fireside, 1850. | Macaulay's England
(vols. i and ii), 1848. | Daniel Webster died, 1852. |
| Parkman's Conspiracy of Pontiac, 1851. | Wonder-
Book, Snow-Image and Other Twice-Told Tales, 1851. | Holmes's Astræa, 1850. | David Copperfield, 1849. | |
| Melville's Moby Dick, 1851. | Whitter's Songs of Labor, 1850. | Pendennis, 1849. | |
| | | In Memoriam, 1850. | |
| | | Mrs. Browning's Casa Guidi Windows, 1851. | |
| | | Ruskin's Stones of Venice (vol. i.), 1851. | |
| Howadji in
Syria, 1852. | Blithedale Romance, 1852. | Longfellow's The Golden Legend, 1851. | Henry Esmond, 1852. | Napoleon III, Emperor, 1852. |
| The Poliphar Papers, 1853. | Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852. | Taylor's Romances,
Lyrics and Songs, 1851. | Bleak House, 1852. | Pierce, President, 1853. |
| Shillaber's Mrs. Partington,
1855. | Susan Warner's Queechy, 1852. | Alice Cary's Poems, 1852. | Hypatia, 1853. | Kansas-Nebraska
Bill passed, 1854. |
| Smith's Way Down East, 1855. | Tanglewood Tales, 1853. | Whitter's Chapel of the
Hermits, 1853. | Landor's Imaginary Conversations, 1853. | Crimean War, 1854. |
| Thoreau's Walden,
1854. | Cooke's The Virginia Comedians, 1854. | Phoebe Cary's Poems, 1854. | The Newcomes, 1854. | Treaty with Japan, 1854. |
| Irving's Washington, 1855. | Maria Cummins's The Lamplighter, 1854. | Parsons's
Poems, 1854. | Matthew Arnold's Poems, 1855. | Republican Party organized, 1856. |
| The Widow Bedott
Papers, 1855. | Simms's The Foragers, 1855. | Taylor's Poems of the Orient, 1854. | Browning's Men
and Women, 1855. | Buchanan, President, 1856. |
| Curtis's Prue and I, 1856. | Harriet Beecher Stowe's
Dred, 1856. | Aldrich's The Bells, 1855. | Tennyson's Maud, 1855. | The Dred Scott Decision, 1857. |
| Emerson's
English Traits, 1856. | Trowbridge's Neighbor Jackwood, 1857. | Hiawatha, 1855. | Mrs. Browning's Aurora
Leigh, 1856. | Atlantic Monthly, 1857. |
| Motley's Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1856. | Simms's The Cassique
of Kiawah, 1859. | Whitman's Leaves of Grass, 1855. | Froude's England, 1856. | Lincoln - Douglas debates,
1858. |
| Child's English and Scottish Ballads, 1857. | Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Minister's Wooing,
1859. | Whittier's Panorama, 1856. | John Halifax, Gentleman, 1856. | First Atlantic Cable, 1858. |
| Timothy
Titcomb's Letters, 1858. | The Marble Faun, 1860. | Stoddard's Songs of Summer, 1857. | Buckle's History
of Civilization, 1857. | John Brown's raid, 1859. |
| Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858. | Curtis's Trumps,1861. | Holland's Bitter-Sweet, 1858. | Tom Brown's Schooldays,1857 | Secession of South Carolina, 1860. |
| New
American Cyclopoedia (edited by G. Ripley and C.A. Dana), begun 1858. | Holmes's Elsie Venner, 1861. |
