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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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American culture
Howlin’ Wolf (Chester Burnett)
Culture; American culture
(1910 – 1976) A country blues artist with a deep, dark, guttural voice, Howlin’ Wolf worked the farms and juke joints of Arkansas and Mississippi from the 1920s through the 1940s. Influenced by ...
Samuel Barber
Culture; American culture
(1910 – 1981) Lyrical composer who worked in various genres, winning Pulitzer Prizes for his opera Vanessa (1958) as well as his “Second Piano Concerto” (1962). While his work is demanding and ...
Bayard Rustin
Culture; American culture
(born 1910); d.1987 Tactician and organizer behind many of the successes of the Civil Rights movement. In the 1940s, Rustin helped organize CORE and laid the groundwork for the freedom rides. Testing ...
Ronald Reagan
Culture; American culture
(born 1911) US president from 1981 to 1989. A second-tier Hollywood leading man, Ronald Reagan shifted from New Deal Democrat to anti-communist conservative while serving as president of the Screen ...
Hubert Horatio Humphrey
Culture; American culture
(1911 – 1978) As a US senator from Minnesota (1948–65 and 1970–8), Humphrey was a key supporter of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. While serving as vice-president under Lyndon B. Johnson (1965–9), he ...
Elizabeth Bishop
Culture; American culture
(1911 – 1979) Poet and translator of two places (“here” and “elsewhere”) and two directions (south, at first Key West, Brazil; then north—Nova Scotia, Harvard, Maine), Bishop inhabited each ...
Williams, Tennessee (Thomas)
Culture; American culture
(1911 – 1988) Powerful playwright whose works explored and exploded myths of the South. His highly personal and poetic dramas are imbued with sensuality guilt, decay illusion and the power of love. ...
