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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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private schools
Culture; American culture
Public education has been a primary institution for the creation of American citizenship since government-supported schools became widespread in the mid-nineteenth century. Despite concerns about ...
public health
Culture; American culture
Public health is a set of techniques by which communities can uniquely complement individual efforts to maintain health. Although much of public health practice is carried out by local health ...
Public Radio International (PRI)
Culture; American culture
Public Radio International, founded in 1983 as American Public Radio, acquires, develops, funds and distributes programming from a variety of station-based, independent and international producers. ...
public relations
Culture; American culture
Public-relations professionals do not simply help their clients to communicate with the public, they also create news—many of the news stories that one reads and watches come from materials provided ...
puritanism
Culture; American culture
Puritanism began as a religious reform movement within the Church of England and spread to the northern English colonies in the early and middle seventeenth century. In recent years the term has ...
The Beach Boys
Culture; American culture
Quintessential balladeers of surf, summer, sixties and California. Formed in 1961 by brothers Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson, their cousin Mike Love and David Marks, they produced twenty albums by ...
race riots
Culture; American culture
Race riots at the beginning of the twentieth century were generally white rampages through black neighborhoods, shooting and burning. By the 1960s, they had become uprisings within the black ...
