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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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Smithsonian Institution
Culture; American culture
Founded in 1846 and named for British scientist James Smithson, who had donated $508,318 to increase and diffuse knowledge in America. The largest museum complex in the world, most of its buildings ...
Stanford University
Culture; American culture
Founded in 1885 by railroad magnate and political leader Leland Stanford and his wife in memory of their son, Leland Jr., who died as a teenager. Located 35 miles south of San Francisco, CA, at the ...
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
Culture; American culture
Founded in 1906, the National Collegiate Athletic Association spent its first years as a weak organization in the shadow of the American Athletics Union (AAU), which controlled most of amateur ...
Ms. magazine
Culture; American culture
Founded in 1972, at a time when “the second wave” of feminism was hitting its stride in America, this monthly magazine became the first nationally distributed commercial feminist publication. At the ...
little-league baseball
Culture; American culture
Founded in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 1939, little-league baseball expanded rapidly into many suburban communities during the 1950s. With more than 5,000 leagues in the US and Canada, by 1960 ...
sit-ins
Culture; American culture
Four students from North Carolina A&T College, a black college in Greensboro, asked to be served at the Woolworths’ lunch-counter in early February 1960. Remaining in place after they were refused ...
freedom
Culture; American culture
Freedom, according to the philosopher Isaiah Berlin, can be thought of in a negative and a positive sense. The former, which can be traced back to the classical liberal philosophy of Bentham and ...
