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EXPLORE The American Novel

How has the American novel evolved and in what ways does it reflect an experience that is uniquely American? Explore 200 years of the American novel, from The Last of the Mohicans to The Corrections.

EXPLORE other NEH-funded projects

Portraits of Daniel Shays and Job Shattuck, leaders of the "Regulators," 1787
Shays' Rebellion & the Making of a Nation
Turner-Ingersoll House, aka "The House of the Seven Gables" in Salem, Mass.
Hawthorne in Salem
Cosmopolitan, vol. 51, no. 1
The Modernist Journals Project
Walt Whitman, illustration from Leaves of Grass
The Walt Whitman Archive
Discovery of Nat Turner, wood engraving
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Tupperware advertisement, 1959
Tupperware!
Portraits of Abigail and John Adams, from the Massachusetts Historical Society
John & Abigail Adams
American Icons: The Great Gatsby
American Icons: The Great Gatsby