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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
Sam Walton
Culture; American culture
(1918 – 1992) A successful Arkansas five-and-ten entrepreneur, Walton opened his first discount Walmart in 1962, building it into the largest retailer in the US. Slashing costs through lower profit ...
Ella Fitzgerald
Culture; American culture
(1918 – 1996) Dubbed “The First Lady of Song,” Ella Fitzgerald’s musical career spanned almost sixty years and extended to forays into movies and television. In 1934 she won an amateur contest at the ...
Dorothy Day
Culture; American culture
(1897 – 1980) Day a Roman Catholic social activist, sought to reconcile her early socialism with her 1927 conversion to Catholicism. She did this through the Catholic Worker’s Movement, which offered ...
Frank Capra
Culture; American culture
(1897 – 1991) Sicilian-born director whose movies embody the comedy and pathos of the American dream. For a decade after the mid-1930s, Capra brought together character, comedy and sometimes dark ...
Paul Robeson
Culture; American culture
(1898 – 1976) Landmark African American athlete, singer, actor and activist, Robeson also epitomized the complexity of black elites in the late twentieth century. A preacher’s son, he emerged as a ...
Herbert Marcuse
Culture; American culture
(1898 – 1979) Philosopher and radical social critic, German-born Marcuse was one of the younger members of the neo-Marxist “Frankfurt” or “critical-theory” school. Forced out of Germany by the Nazis, ...
Norman Vincent Peale
Culture; American culture
(1898 – 1993) Methodist minister and apostle of self-improvement, Peale gained wide exposure as pastor of New York City’s Marble Collegiate Reformed Church, as well as through his radio and ...
