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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
Newt Gingrich
Culture; American culture
(born 1943) Newt Gingrich was elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives in 1995. His election capped a dramatic shift in American politics in which the Republican Party regained control of ...
Sam Shepard
Culture; American culture
(born 1943) Playwright and actor. Shepard has written more than forty plays, generally produced offBroadway. These often explore family dynamics as well as the intersection of representation and ...
Lt Col. Oliver North
Culture; American culture
(born 1943) United States army officer and central figure in the Iran-Contra affair. In nationally televised hearings before Congress in 1987, North admitted to selling arms to Iran in exchange for ...
Arthur Ashe
Culture; American culture
(1943 – 1993) Eight years after being turned away from the Richmond City Tennis Tournament in 1955 because of his race, Ashe became the first African American on the US Davis Cup team, where he ...
George Lucas and Star Wars
Culture; American culture
(born 1944) Film-maker George Lucas envisioned his film series as both a return to the Saturday morning movie serials he had loved as a youth and as a retelling of myths which had taken root long ...
Alice Walker
Culture; American culture
(born 1944) Novelist and poet, born a sharecroppers’ daughter in Eaton, Georgia. After dismissal from Spelman College for participating in civil rights demonstrations, she transferred to Sarah ...
Richard Rodriguez
Culture; American culture
(born 1944) Vocal critic of affirmative action and bilingual education in the 1970s and 1980s. Known for elegant, poetic prose, his autobiographical essays are widely used in college composition ...
