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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J.Edgar Hoover

Culture; American culture

(1895 – 1972) Director of the FBI from its creation as the Bureau of Investigation in 1924 until his death in 1972. Hoover was responsible for placing the FBI at the heart of American government by ...

Edmund Wilson

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(1895 – 1972) Poet, novelist, journalist and cultural and political essayist, Wilson was one of the most prodigious writers of the twentieth century After attending Princeton University and serving ...

Lewis Mumford

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(1895 – 1990) Born and educated in New York City, Lewis Mumford became a prominent American intellectual and authority on urban planning after the Second World War, writing multiple volumes and ...

Howard Hawks

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(1896 – 1977) Director, producer, script writer and storyteller. Beginning with silent films, Hawks developed a lengthy varied and successful career marked by strong vision and relationships that ...

George Burns (Nathan Birnbaum)

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(1896 – 1996) Part of a husband and wife (Gracie Allen, 1902–64) vaudeville team, originating in the 1920s, who made a successful transition to radio and then 1950s sitcom (CBS, 1950–8). Allen’s ...

Richard Russell

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(1897 – 1971) Richard Russell, a long-serving US senator from Georgia and a conservative Democrat, was Chairperson of the Senate Armed Services Committee from 1951 to 1952 and from 1955 to 1968, ...

Pledge of Allegiance

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(Hand over heart, standing) “I pledge allegiance (pause) to the flag (pause) of the United States of America (pause) and to the Republic (pause) for which it stands; one nation (pause) under God ...