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The social heritage and customs of an organized community,society or ethnic group.

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Levittowns

Culture; American culture

Preplanned, post-Second World War communities of low-cost, tract, massmanufactured, single-family homes built by Levitt and Sons, Incorporated, which became worldwide construction ...

Presbyterians

Culture; American culture

Presbyterians constitute approximately 2 percent of the American population. The Presbyterian denomination of the Protestant Church traces its roots to the sixteenth century when ...

Africa

Culture; American culture

President Bill Clinton’s 1998 visit to Africa, while taken by some as a distraction from domestic scandals, marked a potential breakthrough in American relations with Africa. The ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Culture; American culture

President from 1933 until his death in 1945, Roosevelt was the architect of the New Deal and the leader who guided the United States to victory over Japan and Germany in the ...

Seven Sisters

Culture; American culture

Prestigious women’s colleges in the Northeast, often paired socially with the older and richer male Ivy League schools. The group includes Radcliffe, Wellesley Smith and Mt ...

blaxploitation films

Culture; American culture

Prior to the late 1960s, African Americans rarely had a voice in how they were represented in Hollywood films. With several years of declining box-office profits, along with the ...

visual arts

Culture; American culture

Prior to the Second World War, Paris remained the most important center of modern art, while American art labored under a sense of relative cultural impoverishment. By the ...