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The United States isn’t exceptional because of our common culture; it’s exceptional because Americans have been able to ...

"A Great Disorder" by Richard Slotkin explores American myth-making. Here: Gary Wear with Moody's Battery Confederate artery is seen during a demonstration of a battle during the 150th anniversary of ...

Native American storyteller Perry Ground, a Turtle Clan member of the Onondaga Nation, starts his "rethinking" of Thanksgiving with a quiz. Ground, who has been telling stories for 25 years in an ...

Introduction: Definition, Concepts, , and Questions of Folklore and Folklife Studies in a Diverse, Mobile Nation / Simon J. Bronner -- American Jokes, Pranks, and Humor / Moira Marsh -- American ...

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Myth: If your mother or grandmother had breast cancer, you likely will too. Fact: You may not get breast cancer even if your ...

A key part of my Conservative Futurism is trying to understand as accurately as possible the world we currently live in and how we got here. If we get that wrong, it’s going to be nearly impossible to ...

LOS ANGELES -- In Hulu's latest true-crime documentary "Blood & Myth," embark on a haunting journey as one man sets off to investigate a terrifying paranormal connection and unearths a story where ...

Across advertising and popular media, seemingly everyone is grabbing their fringe, denim and Stetson boots, in a wholehearted embrace of the American West.