American culture

American culture

Art, music, literature, people, sports, technology, business, politics, religion and more in the United States. American culture is primarily Western, but is influenced by African, Asian, and Latin American and Native American cultures.

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rock ’n’ roll

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The search for the origins of rock ’n’ roll leads into the thickets of American history including tangles of race relations, population movements, class politics and regionalisms. This much is clear: ...

Rehnquist Court

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William Hubbs Rehnquist (1924–) was appointed an associate justice of the Supreme Court by President Nixon in 1972, largely because of his impeccable conservative record. He used his years in the ...

Cleveland, OH

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When the Cuyahoga river caught fire and burned on June 22, 1969, it seemed a nadir for this industrial port on the Great Lakes. Yet Cleveland has also shown resilience in cleaning up its environment ...

working class

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If the middle class represents “the American dream,” the situation, goals and meanings of working-class life and identity are immediately thrown into question in the United States. Since the Second ...

House Committee on UnAmerican Activities (HUAC)

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Immediately following the Second World War, the federal government fought what it considered to be a growing communist menace within the United States. In part as a reaction to President Harry ...

Russian Americans

Culture; American culture

Immigrants came to the United States from Russia and the Soviet Union in several waves during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Evading the Russian draft, 5,000 pacifist sectarians ...

Irish Americans

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Immigrants from Ireland and their descendants. The Irish who came to America from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries were Presbyterian Scotch-Irish from Ulster, the northern province ...