#Arts & Culture

36 entries

People (15)

The slugger who remade baseball and became America's first sports superstar

Documentary Photographer Who Gave the Depression a Human Face, 1895–1965

Emily Dickinson

Reclusive genius whose poetry redefined American literature — mostly after her death

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

Novelist and essayist who bore witness to race in America with unmatched clarity

Langston Hughes

Poet, Playwright, and Voice of the Harlem Renaissance

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

Cherokee polymath who invented a writing system and made his nation literate in a single generation

Sociologist, co-founder of the NAACP, and theorist of Black identity in America

The poet who gave America a democratic literature and witnessed its bloodiest war

Places (5)

The Los Angeles district that became the capital of American film

The Black Hills monument that carved four presidents into Lakota sacred land

America's largest city and the commercial, cultural, and immigrant capital of the nation

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)

Lindbergh's Transatlantic Flight

The 1927 solo crossing that made Charles Lindbergh a global icon

The medium that first brought live voices into the American home

The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show

The 1964 broadcast that launched the British Invasion

The Harlem Renaissance

The explosion of Black art, literature, and music that redefined American culture, 1920–1940

The Star-Spangled Banner

The poem written during a battle that became the national anthem

Uncle Tom's Cabin

The 1852 novel that turned a generation against slavery

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)

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

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 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

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