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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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| 1834 |
| | | American novelist William Gilmore Simms publishes Guy Rivers, the first of his series known as the Border Romances | |
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| 1835 |
| | | The Partisan, set in South Carolina, launches the series of novels by William Gilmore Simms known as the Revolutionary Romances | |
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| 1836 |
| | | In his essay, Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson sets out the fundamentals of the philolosphy of Transcendentalism | |
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| 1838 |
| | | US author Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes Fanshawe, his first novel, at his own expense | |
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| 1839 |
| | | Edgar Allan Poe publishes a characteristically gothic tale, The Fall of the House of Usher | |
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| 1840 |
| | | The first issue of the quarterly magazine The Dial is issued by the Transcendentalists meeting at Ralph Waldo Emerson's home | |
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| 1841 |
| | | August Dupin solves the case in Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue, considered to be the first example of a detective story | |
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