Watch this History of American Literature after World War 1 video entitled After the Great War and A World Outlook to study America's literary heritage from the turn of the century to the beginning of World War 2.
Survey monumental literary works that explore themes of social injustice and the desensitization and dislocation that followed in the wake of the First World War. Look at poems by Hart Crane, Hilda Doolittle, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, among others, that display the honesty and directness that was characteristic of that time.