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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Clint Eastwood

Culture; American culture

(born 1930) Actor and director who has come to embody the lank, brooding, taciturn loner in the old West and contemporary police drama. Eastwood’s career began with the longrunning television western ...

John Barth

Culture; American culture

(born 1930) Barth was one of a group of influential American novelists and writers who became known in the 1960s for their turn to experimental fiction: his 1967 essay “The Literature of Exhaustion,” ...

Sandra Day O’Connor

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(born 1930) First woman to serve as associate justice of the US Supreme Court. She was nominated by President Reagan and sworn in as a justice on the nation’s highest court in 1981. Her influence on ...

Paul Ehrlich

Culture; American culture

(born 1930) One of the great popularizers of environmental concerns during the 1960s and 1970s. His book, The Population Bomb (1968), co-authored by his wife, Anne, brought Malthusian concerns over ...

Faith Ringgold

Culture; American culture

(born 1930) Painter, quilt-maker and storyteller. Ringgold has been particular notable in transforming memories of and observations on the African American family, social life and political economic ...

H.Ross Perot

Culture; American culture

(born 1930) Successful Texas businessperson, political party organizer and author, Perot came into the national spotlight in 1992 when he ran for president as a third-party candidate. Using his own ...

Harvey Milk

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(1930 – 1978) Gay rights advocate and representative of San Francisco, CA’s Fifth District on the Board of Supervisors. After being discharged from the military, Milk eventually migrated to San ...