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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Katharine Hepburn

Culture; American culture

(born 1907) Female actor. A patrician presence of New England heritage on stage and screen. From A Bill of Divorcement (1932) onwards, Hepburn’s intellectual style and range won her four Oscars, as ...

Rachel Carson

Culture; American culture

(1907 – 1964) Carson published Silent Spring in 1962. The book reoriented American environmental thinking away from conserving wild lands and toward the modern study of complex ecosystems. A ...

John Wayne (Marion Michael Morrison)

Culture; American culture

(1907 – 1979) John “Duke” Wayne embodied a conservative, Cold War, patriotic heroism during his forty-year reign as one of Hollywood’s most popular stars. In the mythical westerns and Hollywood wars ...

James A Michener

Culture; American culture

(1907 – 1997) Novelist whose first book, Tales of the South Pacific (1946), earned him a Pulitzer Prize in 1948 at age forty. Tales drew on Michener’s experience during the Second World War as a ...

Richard Wright

Culture; American culture

(1908 – 1960) After a difficult childhood described in his auto-biography Black Boy (1945), Wright moved from Tennessee to Chicago, IL in 1927 hoping to become a writer. In the Depression he belonged ...

Edward R Murrow

Culture; American culture

(1908 – 1965) One of the most respected and influential American radio and television journalists. Joining the Columbia Broadcasting System in 1935, he went to London to direct their European Bureau ...

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Culture; American culture

(1908 – 1972) Civil rights leader and clergyman, elected to the House of Representatives for eleven terms. In the late 1930s, while assisting his father in his pastorate at the Abyssinian Baptist ...