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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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Levittowns
Culture; American culture
Preplanned, post-Second World War communities of low-cost, tract, massmanufactured, single-family homes built by Levitt and Sons, Incorporated, which became worldwide construction models for suburbs ...
Presbyterians
Culture; American culture
Presbyterians constitute approximately 2 percent of the American population. The Presbyterian denomination of the Protestant Church traces its roots to the sixteenth century when John Calvin in ...
Africa
Culture; American culture
President Bill Clinton’s 1998 visit to Africa, while taken by some as a distraction from domestic scandals, marked a potential breakthrough in American relations with Africa. The US, without the ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Culture; American culture
President from 1933 until his death in 1945, Roosevelt was the architect of the New Deal and the leader who guided the United States to victory over Japan and Germany in the Second World War. His ...
Seven Sisters
Culture; American culture
Prestigious women’s colleges in the Northeast, often paired socially with the older and richer male Ivy League schools. The group includes Radcliffe, Wellesley Smith and Mt Holyoke in Massachusetts, ...
blaxploitation films
Culture; American culture
Prior to the late 1960s, African Americans rarely had a voice in how they were represented in Hollywood films. With several years of declining box-office profits, along with the rise of the Black ...
visual arts
Culture; American culture
Prior to the Second World War, Paris remained the most important center of modern art, while American art labored under a sense of relative cultural impoverishment. By the mid-1950s, however, with ...
