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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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American culture
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Culture; American culture
(1886 – 1969) His phrase “Less is More” epitomized the International Style. His buildings expressed twentieth-century industrial society through skin-and-bones construction. Before emigrating to the ...
Avery Brundage
Culture; American culture
(1887 – 1975) Arguably the most powerful figure in the history of the modern Olympic Games. During his tenure as chairperson of the American Olympic Committee (1930–52), and vice-president (1945–52) ...
Georgia O’Keefe
Culture; American culture
(1887 – 1986) Pioneering American female artist, her bold oversized flowers and abstract still-life representations of the West have made her one of the most popular figures of American abstract art. ...
A.Philip Randolph
Culture; American culture
(1889 – 1979) Born in Florida, Randolph migrated to New York City in 1911, where he attended City College, becoming a socialist. In 1917 he established the radical Harlem, NY journal, The Messenger, ...
Dwight David Eisenhower
Culture; American culture
(1890 – 1969) President between 1953 and 1961, following his success as commander of the Allied Armed forces during the Second World War. Eisenhower labeled himself a “dynamic conservative,” fiscally ...
Earl Warren (Court)
Culture; American culture
(1891 – 1974) Earl Warren emerged from a working-class family to become Alameda County district attorney Attorney-General of California, three-term governor of California and chief justice of the ...
Pearl Buck (Pearl Sydenstreicker Walsh)
Culture; American culture
(1892 – 1973) Buck grew up in China with her missionary parents, returning several times during her career and even teaching at Nanjing University. Her experiences of the small Chinese farming ...
