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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charter schools

Culture; American culture

The educational reforms of the 1990s allowed for community design within public schools. Parents, teachers and others (including corporate consultants) applied for special, independent but publicly ...

trucks and trucking

Culture; American culture

The highways that reshaped America moved goods as well as passengers. Experimentation with car bases followed the initial mass production of autos, but trucks gained special impetus with First World ...

Iran-Contra affair

Culture; American culture

The most serious scandal in the administration of President Ronald Reagan, the affair involved two linked, arguably illegal, covert US government operations that became public knowledge in November ...

Latin America

Culture; American culture

While the US has often portrayed itself as the champion of democracy and freedom in the Western Hemisphere, protector against outsiders and even a partner in Pan-American development, its neighbors ...

family room

Culture; American culture

The living room, like the earlier parlor, often presents a home’s formal visage to visitors. Behind the kitchen or down the stairs, however, another space in the postwar American home has fostered ...

automakers

Culture; American culture

The increasing automobility of Americans after the Second World War not only changed American geography and culture, but also benefited a set of key corporations that stood for American industrial ...

video

Culture; American culture

The portable consumer video cameras that came out in the late 1970s extended the range of the portable 16mm camera that had allowed cinema vérité to flourish. Unlike film cameras, video cameras first ...