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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Pulitzer Prize

Culture; American culture

Awarded annually by Columbia University since 1917, the Pulitzer Prize recognizes achievements in American journalism, letters, drama and music. The journalism category has fourteen separate awards, ...

W.E.B. Du Bois

Culture; American culture

(1868 – 1963) Towering intellectual of the twentieth century remembered mostly for his opposition to Booker T. Washington’s polices of accommodation, and for his suggestion in Souls of Black Folk ...

Frank Lloyd Wright

Culture; American culture

(1869 – 1959) Wright’s buildings reinforce American ideals of democracy individual freedom and family. His inexpensive middle-class Usonian (United States-onian) homes and low, extended Prairie ...

Robert Frost

Culture; American culture

(1874 – 1963) Poet. Frost’s poems of New England, nature, rural life and ordinary people constitute a beloved legacy for many Americans who memorize lyrics from “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” ...

Norman Rockwell

Culture; American culture

(1874 – 1978) Painter and illustrator. Rockwell’s mythic vision of America drew on and created images of a smalltown world of insightful and emotional interactions, but he could also extend this ...

Carl Sandburg

Culture; American culture

(1878 – 1974) Poet of Swedish American heritage who celebrated the Midwest as an American heartland. Popular for his lyrical images of modern America and the common person, his critical reputation ...

Albert Einstein

Culture; American culture

(1879 – 1955) Physicist whom Time magazine chose as “Man of the Millennium.” German-born Einstein was most famous for his theory of relativity and related re-conceptualizations of physics in the ...