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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
Aaron Copland
Culture; American culture
(1900 – 1990) After study in New York City, NY and Paris (with Nadia Boulanger), Copland began a career of stylistic exploration ranging from abstract pieces to adaptations of American rhythms from ...
Gary Cooper
Culture; American culture
(1901 – 1961) Whether stumbling into truth and love in Capra comedies (Mr Deeds Goes to Town Goes to Town, 1936; Meet John Doe, 1941), saving America reluctantly on the battlefield (Sergeant York, ...
Walt Disney
Culture; American culture
(1901 – 1966) Walt Disney brought visions and values of small-town America to mass media and theme parks; his multimedia conglomerate continues to grow after his death. Disney characters, films, ...
Louis Satchmo Armstrong
Culture; American culture
(1901 – 1971) Beloved jazz cornetist, singer and movie personality whose career spanned six decades. Born in poverty in New Orleans, Armstrong’s talents led him to fame with swing bands in Chicago ...
Louis Kahn
Culture; American culture
(1901 – 1974) Architect most controversial for breaking away from the international style in his designs of the 1950s. Born in the Russian Empire, Kahn designed workers’ housing and private ...
Linus Pauling
Culture; American culture
(1901 – 1994) Scientist, activist and the only figure to have won two unshared Nobel prizes. Pauling’s scientific work originally focused on the nature of chemical bonds and their impacts on complex ...
Strom Thurmond
Culture; American culture
(born 1902) Perennial senator from South Carolina. Thurmond was elected as a Democratic governor in 1946, but veered away from Truman’s civil rights agenda to head the splinter Dixiecrat presidential ...
