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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
Harley Earl
Culture; American culture
(1893 – 1969) Industrial designer and head of styling at General Motors (1926–59), Earl was responsible for the general trends in American automobile styling from the 1920s to the end of the 1950s, ...
Raymond Fernand Loewy
Culture; American culture
(1893 – 1986) French-born industrial designer of America’s modern style, emphasizing streamlined flow and legibility Thomas Hine characterized him as an engineer “of the emotions, making the ...
James Thurber
Culture; American culture
(1894 – 1961) Poet, cartoonist, playwright and essayist, Thurber’s wry humor explored alternative relations of gender in which men sought less to dominate than to escape from gender battles, work and ...
E.Franklin Frazier
Culture; American culture
(1894 – 1962) African American sociologist who made important contributions to understanding black experience. Frazier generally used an assimilation model, arguing that Africans had been stripped of ...
John Ford
Culture; American culture
(1894 – 1973) Known as the foremost director of westerns in Hollywood history none of Ford’s six Academy Awards for direction were for westerns. Renowned worldwide as one of America’s finest ...
George Meany
Culture; American culture
(1894 – 1980) President of the AFL-CIO from 1955 to 1979, George Meany was the most powerful labor leader at a time when labor unions had considerable influence in American politics. Born in New York ...
Martha Graham
Culture; American culture
(1894 – 1991) Dramatic doyenne of American modern dance. As both dancer and choreographer, Graham incorporated American cultural themes and classical dramas into her repertoire, translated into ...
