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• The American Academy of Arts and Letters — is a 250 member organization whose goal is to foster, assist, and sustain excellence in American literature, music, and art. It is located in Washington Heights, a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, in New York, on a Beaux Arts campus that is… …   Wikipedia

• The American Spectator — is a conservative U.S. monthly magazine covering news and politics, edited by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. and published by the non profit American Spectator Foundation. From its founding in 1967 until the late 1980s, the small circulation magazine… …   Wikipedia

• The American Mercury — is a defunct magazine founded in 1924 as the brainchild of H. L. Mencken and drama critic George Jean Nathan. The magazine featured writing by some of the most important writers in the United States through the 1920s and 1930s. The magazine… …   Wikipedia

• The American Review — has served as the title of three distinct magazines: 19th century The American Review , alternatively known as American Review: A Whig Journal and American Whig Review , was a New York City based periodical in the 19th century. It is known today… …   Wikipedia

• The American Crisis — was a series of pamphlets published from 1776 to 1783 during the American Revolution by eighteenth century enlightenment Philosopher and author Thomas Paine. The first volume begins with the famous words These are the times that try men s souls …   Wikipedia

• The American (statue) — The American is a 217 ft (66 m) bronze statue of a Native American to be built at Holmes Peak near Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, by sculptor Shan Gray.Holmes Peak, located in southeastern Osage County some 7 miles (11 km) northwest of downtown Tulsa, is… …   Wikipedia

• The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language — (AHD) is an American dictionary of the English language published by Boston publisher Houghton Mifflin, the first edition of which appeared in 1969. Its creation was spurred by the controversy over the Webster s Third New International Dictionary …   Wikipedia

• The American Language — first published in 1919, is H. L. Mencken s book about the English language as spoken in the United States.Mencken was inspired by the argot of the colored waiters in Washington, as well as one of his favorite authors, Mark Twain, and his experi …   Wikipedia

• The American Voter — published in 1960, is a seminal study of voting behaviour in the United States, authored by Angus Campbell, Philip Converse, Warren Miller, and Donald Stokes, colleagues at the University of Michigan. Among its controversial conclusions, based o …   Wikipedia

• The Decline of the American Empire — French language film poster Directed by Denys Arcand Written by …   Wikipedia

• The American Political Tradition — is a 1948 book by Richard Hofstadter, an account on the ideology of previous U.S. presidents and other political figures. The full title is The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It. Hofstadter s introduction proposes that the… …   Wikipedia