20 Terms
Home > Industry/Domain > Culture > 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.
Industry: Culture
Add a new termContributors in American culture
American culture
Margaret Sanger
Culture; American culture
(1879 – 1966) Pioneer in birth control. Trained as a nurse, Sanger opened the world’s first birthcontrol clinic (in Brooklyn) in 1915; she also helped organize the Planned Parenthood movement. She ...
George Marshall
Culture; American culture
(1880 – 1959) General of the Army and statesman. After a long military career, including service in the First World War, the Philippines and China, Marshall became Army Chief of Staff in 1939, ...
Douglas MacArthur
Culture; American culture
(1880 – 1964) Scion of an Army family with experience of East Asia, General MacArthur made his name in the assault on the Philippines during the Second World War. After losing the islands in an ...
Sam Rayburn
Culture; American culture
(1882 – 1961) Democratic congressional leader and Speaker of the House from 1940 to 1961. Elected to the House from rural Texas in 1913, Rayburn built up formidable connections with Roosevelt and the ...
(Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt
Culture; American culture
(1884 – 1962) Patrician by birth and marriage, Roosevelt became loved—and hated—on her own for her stands on race and human rights. Niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, she began a tumultuous ...
Harry S. Truman
Culture; American culture
(1884 – 1972) Elected vice-president in 1944 when Franklin D. Roosevelt won a fourth consecutive presidential term, Truman became president when Roosevelt died in April 1945. Within months he had ...
Richard Buckminster Fuller
Culture; American culture
(1885 – 1983) Inventor, engineer and mathematician whose optimism about technology and growth made him a scientific guru of the postwar era. Nimble in combining structures and dynamics (and labeling ...
