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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fraternities and sororities

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National fraternal organizations deeply associated with American college life and imagery. The first, Phi Beta Kappa, was founded in 1776 at William and Mary College in Virginia; it is now a national ...

nature

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Nature has been a fundamental feature of American culture since the European “discovery” of a new-world Eden. This embrace of wilderness or the “great outdoors” permeates the elevation of the ...

Star Trek and “Trekkies”

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NBC science-fiction television series (1966–9), created by Gene Roddenberry Originally pitched as a space-faring western, Star Trek was notable for its cerebral engagement with questions of identity ...

Seinfeld

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NBC situation comedy (1989–98). Dubbed the “show about nothing” for its obsessive focus on everyday minutiae of New York life, it won consistent top ratings and multiple awards, becoming the most ...

African Methodists

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Nearly 4 million African Methodists belong to two denominations: African Methodist Episcopal and AME Episcopal Zion. The denominations grew out of schisms occurring in white Methodists’ churches in ...

Newark, NJ

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Newark grew in the nineteenth century as an industrial city in the shadow of New York City, and, like other cities, was heavily reliant on growing immigrant communities for its labor. Beginning in ...

newspapers

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Newspapers have been entwined with American politics, culture and technology. Evolving from publications devoted to political advocacy and commerce to those emphasizing news and dependent on ...