The American Culture Quiz is a weekly test of our unique national traits, trends, history and people. This time, test your knowledge of superstar singers, beloved books, timeless toys and more.

Taken from one of his lectures, here is his list of the all-time Irish American ... This book, which argues the case for the critical role of the monks in preserving European culture and history ...

Trump says he’s lifting tariffs on most goods from Mexico for one month amid economic fears from trade war ...

The New York Historical honor goes to Randall K. Wilson, whose “A Place Called Yellowstone” chronicles a landscape “capable ...

In his book American Plastic: A Cultural History, historian Jeffrey Meikle writes that the ever-expanding proliferation of consumer goods created an inflationary culture, and that plastic became ...

The object of inquiry in American studies is culture—usefully defined as a society’s “whole way of life”—the sum of the ways a society and its subjects at once understand and remake the world. Taking ...

And while it’s widely regarded as one of Twain’s finest novels (and one of the greatest American novels of all time), challenges to the book have been persistent since its publication.