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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fried chicken

Culture; American culture

Staple of the Southern Sunday dinner table for both blacks and whites which is served with corn bread, potatoes, gravy boiled greens with fatback, iced tea and followed by rich pies. Recipes vary ...

Forbes family/magazine

Culture; American culture

Through three successive generations, the Forbes family has sustained a financial publishing enterprise around the popular Forbes magazine. Millionaire Malcolm S. Forbes Sr., known as much for his ...

Holocaust museum

Culture; American culture

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC houses exhibits on the Holocaust, the systematic effort of the Nazis between 1933 and 1945 to exterminate the Jews of Europe and members ...

community colleges/junior colleges

Culture; American culture

Two-year college programs, often focused on vocational goals, have grown rapidly since the Second World War to encompass more than 10 million students (about half part-time) in 1,100 institutions—abou ...

Pacific Northwest

Culture; American culture

While state and local boundaries are clearly defined and embodied in law, those of the region called the Pacific Northwest are not. Cohesion derives from the region’s early geographic isolation and ...

bathroom

Culture; American culture

The American bathroom is understandably associated with body waste and dirt, as well as privacy even in public space. Architecturally bathrooms tend to be the most secluded spaces of the house; ...

prisons

Culture; American culture

The stern edifices and high security control of penal enclosure seem, in many ways, antithetical to the promises of any American dream of freedom, opportunity and even new beginnings. Yet, a ...