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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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militias
Culture; American culture
Sanctioned—theoretically—by the 2nd Amendment of the Bill of Rights, the militia movement in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries has primarily attracted die-hard, right-wing patriots. ...
school boards
Culture; American culture
School boards govern the nation’s public and private schools. While each state has its own board of education for public schools, most educational decisions are handled at the local level by ...
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Culture; American culture
SCLC was founded in 1957, emerging out of the Montgomery Improvement Association, which had successfully orchestrated the bus boycott. Led by Martin Luther King, Jr. as president, until his death in ...
scouts
Culture; American culture
Scouting programs are service and recreation organizations that nurture character development, respect, self-esteem and patriotism in young people. Both the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), organized in ...
catalogs
Culture; American culture
Sears Roebuck tells us one story As this emporium, incorporated in 1893, spread outward from Chicago, MI, its illustrated catalogs became a mass medium of consumption in rural areas, outlying towns ...
Speaker of the House
Culture; American culture
Second in line to the presidency after the vicepresident, the Speaker is chosen by the majority party in the House of Representatives. All the people who have held this position have wielded ...
high school
Culture; American culture
Secondary education generally constituted by 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grades (corresponding roughly to ages 14–17). It is separated from elementary education by an intermediate stage of middle school ...
