Literature	Music	Movies
1910
Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House    Deaths of Mark Twain (b. 1835), Rebecca Harding Davis (b. 1831), and William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) (b. 1862)	"Come Josephine in my Flying Machine" (RealAudio from Dismuke.org) "Temptation Rag" (Prince's Military Band) (RealAudio from Dismuke.org) "Reuben Rag" (Sophie Tucker)(RealAudio file from a wax cylinder recording at Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders.) "Wild Cherries Rag" (Victor Orchestra) (RealAudio from Dismuke.org) "Glow-worm" (Victor Orchestra; 1908-1913) (RealAudio clip from www.besmark.com) "Shine On, Harvest Moon" (1908-1913)(RealAudio clip from www.besmark.com)	.
1911
Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome Theodore Dreiser, Jennie Gerhardt 24 January. Progressive journalist and popular novelist David Graham Phillips (b. 1867) is shot and killed outside the Princeton Club in New York.  The Masses (New York), 1911-1918	"Grandfather's Clock" (Hayden Quartet; 1908-1913) (RealAudio clip from www.besmark.com) "Oceana Roll"(RealAudio from Robert's Old Schmaltz Archives)	White Roses (Mary Pickford)
1912
Edith Wharton, The Reef  Willa Cather, Alexander's Bridge  Theodore Dreiser, The Financier  Sui-Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton), Mrs. Spring Fragrance  Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage  James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man  Mary Antin, The Promised Land  Founding of Poetry magazine.	"Alexander's Ragtime Band"  (RealAudio file from Dismuke's Site.) "Tell Me, Pretty Maiden (are there any more at home like you?)" (Victor Opera Light Sextette; 1908-1913) (RealAudio clip from www.besmark.com) Waiting for the Robert E. Lee (RealAudio file from Dismuke's Site.)	An Unseen Enemy (Lillian Gish; dir. D. W. Griffith)  The Musketeers of Pig Alley (dir. D. W. Griffith)  The New York Hat (Mary Pickford; titles by Anita Loos)
1913
Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country  Willa Cather, O Pioneers!  Ellen Glasgow, Virginia  Robert Frost, A Boy's Will  Jack London, The Valley of the Moon  Henry James, A Small Boy and Others  Oscar Micheaux, The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer	"You Made Me Love You" (Al Jolson)  "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" (written by Ballard McDonald and Harry Carroll), performed by Walter Van Brunt (Library of Congress) "The Boys of the Old Brigade" (excerpt; early recording of an old Civil War song) (RealAudio clip from www.besmark.com) "Put on Your Slippers and Fill Up Your Pipe"(RealAudio from Robert's Old Schmaltz Archives)	.
1914
Theodore Dreiser, The Titan  Henry James, Notes of a Son and Brother  Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons  Vachel Lindsay, The Congo  Carl Sandburg, Chicago  Frank Norris,  Vandover and the Brute  Sinclair Lewis, Our Mr. Wrenn  Ambrose Bierce (b. 1842) disappears in Mexico and is presumed dead.  Death of S. Weir Mitchell (b. 1829)  Death of Sui-Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton)	"Sympathy Waltz" (Victor Orchestra) (RealAudio file from Dismuke's Site.) "Irresistible--Tango Argentine" (Victor Orchestra) (RealAudio file from Dismuke's Site.) "It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary" (American Quartet) (RealAudio file from Dismuke's Site.) "I Want to Go Back to Michigan" (written by Irving Berlin), performed by Billy Murray and Chorus (Library of Congress) "Aba-Daba Honeymoon" (RealAudio from the Library of Congress)	Mabel at the Wheel (Charlie Chaplin)  The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (D. W. Griffith)  Judith of Bethulia (D. W. Griffith)  A Good Little Devil (Mary Pickford)
1915
T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"  Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology  Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark  Margaret Deland, Around Old Chester  Theodore Dreiser, The "Genius"  Dorothy Canfield Fisher, The Bent Twig  Robert Frost, North of Boston	"Nola" (Novelty ragtime tune by Felix Arndt; MIDI file)  Desperate Desmond (vaudeville routine by Frederick Duprez)  "Keep the Home Fires Burning" (Ivor Novello; date unknown) (RealAudio from the Library of Congress ) "Gasoline Gus and his Jitney Bus" (RealAudio from the Library of Congress )	The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin)  The Birth of a Nation (D. W. Griffith)  Rags (Mary Pickford)  Regeneration (dir. Raoul Walsh)  Chaplin, The Bank Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco (Mabel Normand and Fatty Arbuckle; Mack Sennett)(Library of Congress; new URL)
1916
Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems  Sherwood Anderson, Windy McPherson's Son  Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger  William Dean Howells, The Leatherwood God  Grace King, The Pleasant Ways of St. Medard  Amy Lowell, Men, Women, and Ghosts  Ring Lardner, You Know Me Al  Deaths of Henry James (b. 1843),  Jack London (b. 1876), and Richard Harding Davis (b. 1864)	"Guatemala-Panama March" (The Hurtado Bros. Royal Marimba Band of Guatemala) (RealAudio file from Dismuke's Site.) "The Globe Trot" (Victor Military Band)(RealAudio file from Dismuke's Site.) "There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding" (RealAudio from the Library of Congress) "Are You from Dixie?"(RealAudio from the Library of Congress)	The Rink (Charlie Chaplin)  The Pawnshop (Charlie Chaplin) The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (Douglas Fairbanks)  Intolerance  (D. W. Griffith)
1917
Hamlin Garland, A Son of the Middle Border  Abraham Cahan, The Rise of David Levinsky  Sinclair Lewis, The Job  Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence  T. S. Eliot, Prufrock and Other Observations  David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise  Edith Wharton, Summer  Oscar Micheaux, The Homesteader  Pulitzer Prizes established.	Dixieland "Jass" Band One-Step(RealAudio file from Dismuke's Site.) "Over There" (written by George M. Cohan), performed by Billy Murray  "Over There" (excerpt; American Quartet)(RealAudio clip from www.besmark.com) "Good Morning, Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip" (Arthur Fields; date uncertain)  (Note Sinclair Lewis's use of this song in Dodsworth) (RealAudio clip from www.besmark.com) "Goodbye Broadway, Hello France" (Arthur Fields) (RealAudio clip from www.besmark.com) "Lorraine"(excerpt; Reinald Werrenrath; date uncertain) (RealAudio clip from www.besmark.com) "Till We Meet Again" (excerpt; Charles Hart and Lewis James) (RealAudio clip from www.besmark.com)	Easy Street (Charlie Chaplin)  The Immigrant (Charlie Chaplin)  Wild and Woolly (Douglas Fairbanks)  The Poor Little Rich Girl and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Mary Pickford)
1918
Willa Cather, My Antonia  Edith Wharton, The Marne  Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Edgewater People  Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons  O. Henry Award for the short story established.	"Au Revoir but Not Goodbye" (Henry Burr) (RealAudio file from Dismuke's Site.) "My Dough Boy" (One-Step) (Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra) (RealAudio file from Dismuke's Site.) "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" (performed by Arthur Fields; excerpt) (RealAudio clip from www.besmark.com)	Shoulder Arms (Charlie Chaplin)  Hearts of the World (D. W. Griffith)  The House of Mirth (from the novel by Edith Wharton; dir. Albert Capellani)  Old Wives for New (from the novel by David Graham Phillips; dir. C. B. DeMille)
1919
Pulitzer Prizes:  For literature--Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons; for biography--Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams  Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio	"Since Katy the Waitress (became an Aviatress)" (Fred Van Eps) RealAudio from The Virtual Gramophone "Salvator Rosa - Mia piccireila" (Enrico Caruso) (RealAudio file from Dismuke's Site.) "Lucille" (Wilbur Sweatman's Original Jazz Band ) (RealAudio file from Dismuke's Site.) "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" (RealAudio from the Library of Congress) "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree)" (Arthur Fields) (RealAudio clip from www.besmark.com) (Full version sung by Nora Bayes; RealAudio file at Robert's Old Time Music Archive.)  "Ja-Da" (Arthur Fields) (RealAudio clip from www.besmark.com) "After You've Gone" (Campbell and Burr) (RealAudio clip from www.besmark.com) "Bring Back those Wonderful Days" (Bert Williams) (RealAudio clip from www.besmark.com)	Sunnyside (Charlie Chaplin)  His Majesty, the American (Douglas Fairbanks)  Broken Blossoms (D. W. Griffith)  Daddy Long Legs (Mary Pickford)  Male and Female (Gloria Swanson; version of G. B. Shaw's The Admirable Crichton dir. Cecil B. DeMille)

Music Sites: Please visit these sites for more information and to express your appreciation for making the music links available:

Redhotjazz.com http://www.redhotjazz.com/
Cylinders on the Web
Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine Site.
Bill Edwards' Ragtime Sheet Music Covers
The Edison Shop
The American Variety Stage page at the Library of Congress
Ragtime MIDI files courtesy of the Primeline MIDI Library.
World War I Songs
Robert's Old Schmaltz Archives

See also the collection of African American sheet music at the Library of Congress

Note that all links under the music column require either RealPlayer, Quicktime, or some other type of plug-in, such as Windows Media Player.  Much of this software may already be installed on your computer; if not, various plug-ins are available for free at the following sites:

Quicktime:        http://www.apple.com/quicktime/
RealPlayer:        http://www.realplayer.com/
Windows Media Player
Real JukeBox Beta       http://computingcentral.msn.com/topics/multimedia/DBDetails.asp?DownloadID=52686
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