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| 1820 |
| | | 7-year-old Henry Wadsworth Longfellow has a poem published in a newspaper in his home town of Portland, Maine | |
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| 1821 |
| | | The Spy, a romance set in the American Revolution, establishes the reputation of US author James Fenimore Cooper | |
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| 1823 |
| | | James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers introduces Natty Bumppo, frontiersman known for his 'leather stockings' | |
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| 1823 |
| | | An American poem, A Visit from St Nicholas, describes in every detail the modern Santa Claus | |
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| 1826 |
| | | In James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Natty Bumppo sides with a Mohican chief | |
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| 1829 |
| | | 20-year-old Edgar Allan Poe publishes Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems | |
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| 1830 |
| | | Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem 'Old Ironsides' prompts a public response that saves the frigate from the scrapyard | |
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| 1831 |
| | | Samuel Francis Smith's patriotic hymn America is sung for the first time on July 4 in Boston | |
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| 1831 |
| | | Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem The Last Leaf is inspired by an aged survivor of the Boston Tea Party | |
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| 1832 |
| | | English author Frances Trollope ruffles transatlantic feathers with her Domestic Manners of the Americans, based on a 3-year stay | |
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