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People (15)
Babe Ruth
The slugger who remade baseball and became America's first sports superstar
Dorothea Lange
Documentary Photographer Who Gave the Depression a Human Face, 1895–1965
Emily Dickinson
Reclusive genius whose poetry redefined American literature — mostly after her death
Emma Lazarus
The poet whose words gave the Statue of Liberty its voice
Ernest Hemingway
Nobel laureate whose spare prose remade American fiction
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Chronicler of the Jazz Age and author of the Great American Novel
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin and the novelist who sharpened the nation's conscience on slavery
James Baldwin
Novelist and essayist who bore witness to race in America with unmatched clarity
Langston Hughes
Poet, Playwright, and Voice of the Harlem Renaissance
Mark Twain
The Mississippi River humorist who became America's sharpest social critic
Norman Rockwell
America's most beloved illustrator — and a more complicated artist than his reputation suggests
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Father of American Transcendentalism and prophet of self-reliance
Sequoyah
Cherokee polymath who invented a writing system and made his nation literate in a single generation
W.E.B. Du Bois
Sociologist, co-founder of the NAACP, and theorist of Black identity in America
Walt Whitman
The poet who gave America a democratic literature and witnessed its bloodiest war
Places (5)
Hollywood
The Los Angeles district that became the capital of American film
Mount Rushmore
The Black Hills monument that carved four presidents into Lakota sacred land
New York City
America's largest city and the commercial, cultural, and immigrant capital of the nation
Route 66
The "Main Street of America" that carried a nation west
The White House
The presidential residence that became the symbol of American power
Eras (1)
The Roaring Twenties
The decade of prosperity, prohibition, and cultural upheaval that ended in catastrophe, 1920–1929
Events (8)
Flag Day
The June 14 observance marking the adoption of the Stars and Stripes
Lindbergh's Transatlantic Flight
The 1927 solo crossing that made Charles Lindbergh a global icon
The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show
The 1964 broadcast that launched the British Invasion
The Birth of a Nation
D.W. Griffith's 1915 epic — cinematic landmark and racist propaganda
The Harlem Renaissance
The explosion of Black art, literature, and music that redefined American culture, 1920–1940
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The 1852 novel that turned a generation against slavery
Woodstock
The 1969 festival that became the emblem of the counterculture
World's Columbian Exposition
Chicago's 1893 "White City" and the showcase of an industrial America
Concepts (7)
American Dream
The belief that effort and merit guarantee opportunity in America
American Exceptionalism
The conviction that the United States occupies a unique and exemplary place in world history
American Media
How the nation learned to inform, persuade, and entertain itself
Sports in America
How games became one of the nation's great stages for race, money, and identity
The Counterculture of the 1960s
The cultural rebellion that challenged postwar conformity and permanently altered American life
The Lost Cause
The Confederate mythology that rewrote the Civil War — and shaped a century of American race relations
Transcendentalism
The New England movement that gave America its philosophy of individual conscience
Organizations (15)
Coca-Cola
The Atlanta soda that became a global symbol of America, 1886
PBS
The public television network of Sesame Street and the news, founded 1969
The American Museum of Natural History
New York's temple of dinosaurs, dioramas, and science, founded 1869
The Ford Foundation
The philanthropy that spread American ideas at home and abroad, 1936
The Library of Congress
The national library that rose from ashes on Jefferson's shelves, 1800
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
America's grandest art museum, founded 1870
The Museum of Modern Art
The museum that made modern art respectable, founded 1929
The National Archives
The keeper of the Declaration, the Constitution, and the nation's records, 1934
The National Gallery of Art
The nation's art museum, a gift to the people, 1937
The National Geographic Society
The society that brought the world to America, founded 1888
The NCAA
The body that governs — and profits from — college sports, 1906
The New York Public Library
The people's library guarded by two stone lions, founded 1895
The Smithsonian Institution
The national museum complex born from a mysterious English bequest, 1846
The USO
The troops' morale organization, from WWII canteens to today, 1941
The YMCA
The Christian association that shaped American recreation and reform, since 1851
Symbols (4)
National Symbols of the United States
The flag, the eagle, and the emblems that stand in for the nation
The Bald Eagle
The national bird and living emblem of the United States
The Star-Spangled Banner
The poem written during a battle that became the national anthem
Uncle Sam
The white-bearded personification of the United States government
Technology (1)
Radio
The medium that first brought live voices into the American home
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