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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sailing

Culture; American culture

Sport with regional popularity (the coasts and the Great Lakes, especially) among white middle-class Americans. Recreational sailing took off in the middle of the nineteenth century as commercial ...

Northeast

Culture; American culture

Unlike other regions of the United States, the unity of this highly industrial and urban area is defined as much by its power as viewed from other vantages as by a cohesive regional experience. ...

historic preservation

Culture; American culture

The movement to save historic structures is commonly dated as beginning in 1966, with the passing of the National Historic Preservation Act, which gave new powers to the National Park Service to ...

Cuban missile crisis

Culture; American culture

What was remarkable about the discoveries made by the U-2 plane flying over Cuba on October 14, 1962, was not the pictures of Soviet missiles being placed there, but rather the fact that Americans ...

Republican Party

Culture; American culture

The more conservative of the two major political parties, the Republican Party is generally identi fied with small government and laissez-faire economics. Republicans usually support tax cuts, ...

folklore

Culture; American culture

The term “folklore” has somewhat different connotations in popular and professional usages. Most Americans generally understand folklore to refer to traditional narratives, beliefs or practices, ...

regions and regionalism

Culture; American culture

The major geographical divisions of the United States—North, South, Midwest and West—reflect different attitudes, dialects, literature, folklore, food, history perspectives, climate and lifestyle ...