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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Oklahoma City bombing

Culture; American culture

The April 19, 1995 truck bombing of Oklahoma City’s Alfred P. Murrah Federal was the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in American history One hundred and sixty-eight people, including nineteen ...

miscegenation

Culture; American culture

The mixing of races, especially the marriage or cohabitation between a white person and a member of another race. Miscegenation has been susceptible to changing meanings insofar as racial categories ...

curfew

Culture; American culture

Traditionally associated with war, civil disturbance and disaster, curfews have kept Americans in their houses during natural disasters and riots. In the 1990s, cities also used them to control ...

feminism

Culture; American culture

The term “feminism” first came into use in the 1910s to describe an emerging movement committed to mobilizing women as a distinct social group and eliminating social hierarchies between men and ...

turkey

Culture; American culture

The symbolic weight of this bird crashes onto American dinner tables every Thanksgiving. Although a New World species, the Pilgrims probably knew it in England before any mythic dinners of peace with ...

Title IX

Culture; American culture

The most far-reaching of federal educational laws, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any program or activity at a private or public ...

Democratic Party

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The Democratic Party’s origins are in the party created by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in response to the pro-British, active government strategy of Alexander Hamilton’s Federalists. It was ...