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| 1862 |
| | | Unpublished American poet Emily Dickinson writes more than 300 poems within the year | |
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| 1865 |
| | | Samuel Clemens, writing under the pseudonym Mark Twain, has immediate success with The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County | |
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| 1866 |
| | | Walt Whitman laments the assassinated President Lincoln in his poem 'O Captain! My Captain!', published in Sequel to Drum-Taps | |
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| 1867 |
| | | The first collection of 'Negro Spirituals' is published in book form in the US as Slave Songs of the United States | |
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| 1868 |
| | | US author Louisa May Alcott begins serial publication of her book for children, Little Women (in book form 1869) | |
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| 1870 |
| | | Bret Harte's comic ballad Plain Language from Truthful James acquires a popular alternative title, The Heathen Chinee | |
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| 1872 |
| | | Pragmatism emerges as a philosophical approach in meetings of the Metaphysical Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts | |
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| 1873 |
| | | The Gilded Age, by Charles Dudley Warner and Mark Twain, provides the familiar name for life in the US towards the end of the nineteenth century | |
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| 1876 |
| | | In 21 years Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass has grown from 12 poems to the two volumes of the sixth edition, published in the USA's centenary year | |
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| 1876 |
| | | Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, in which Tom and his friends find excitement in a small town on the Mississippi | |
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