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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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reunions
Culture; American culture
Assemblies viewed with nostalgia and trepidation, as continuous media presentations underscore. Many reunions are generational, marking rites of passage in education or military service. The 25th ...
Pittsburgh, PA
Culture; American culture
At the intersection of the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers, Pittsburgh set production records in the Second World War as a grimy steel town. With later shifts in its heavy manufacturing ...
computer/video games
Culture; American culture
Atari, an American company formed in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell, a University of California engineering graduate, became the first major company to dominate the computer and video-game market. Building ...
Atlanta, GA
Culture; American culture
Atlanta has been a center for a “new” South in the post-Civil War era and the twentieth century. In both eras, this promise conveys civic hope and overlooks ongoing problems, especially those of ...
Human Genome Project
Culture; American culture
Attempt to locate and map more than 100,000 human genes and their 3,000,000 nucleotide bases by 2005. The global project began formally in 1990, supported in the US by the National Institutes of ...
pop art
Culture; American culture
Augured in the 1950s in the work of neoDadaists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, the American incarnation of pop art, as it emerged in the 1960s, was a movement immersed in the visual languages, ...
minimalism
Culture; American culture
Avant-garde visual arts movement that emerged in the early 1960s, characterized best by three-dimensional objects in simple geometric shapes. Central figures included Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald ...
