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American Music Awards of 2015
The American Music Awards of 2015 were the 43rd edition of the fan-voted AMAs, held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on November 22, 2015, hosted by Jennifer Lopez.
American Music Awards of 2019
The American Music Awards of 2019 were held on November 24 in Los Angeles, hosted by Ciara, with Taylor Swift winning Artist of the Decade.
American Music Awards of 2025
The 2025 American Music Awards (2025 AMAs), 51st edition held May 26, 2025 at Fontainebleau Las Vegas on CBS, hosted by Jennifer Lopez; Billie Eilish won all seven nominations, Kendrick Lamar led with 10 nods.
American Music Awards of 2026
The American Music Awards of 2026, the 52nd fan-voted ceremony, took place May 25 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. BTS won Artist of the Year.
American Music Awards records and achievements
The American Music Awards records and achievements cover Taylor Swift's record 40 wins, Michael Jackson's and Whitney Houston's eight wins in one night, and Alabama's 23 group wins.
American Music Awards soul/R&B categories
The American Music Awards soul/R&B categories are AMA honors for soul and R&B music, including Favorite Soul/R&B Album, won by artists from Gladys Knight to The Weeknd.
American Music Awards special honors
Non-competitive American Music Awards honors given outside fan-voted categories: the Award of Merit (since 1974), Lifetime Achievement Award, International Artist Award of Excellence, and Veterans Voice Award, presented by Dick Clark Productions at the AMAs.
American mutilation of Japanese war dead
American mutilation of Japanese war dead (アメリカ兵による日本軍戦死者の遺体陵辱行為): WWII Pacific War trophy-taking of Japanese skulls, ears, teeth, and bones by US troops, prohibited by 1942 orders, protested by Japan in 1944, and studied by Weingartner, Harrison, and Dower.
American National Election Studies
The American National Election Studies (ANES) is a federally funded academic survey program that has collected data on voting behavior and public opinion in United States national elections since 1948.
American National Standards Institute
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI), founded in 1918 and headquartered in Washington, DC, is a private, non-profit organization that coordinates U.S. voluntary standards and represents the United States in the ISO.
American nationalism
American nationalism: the set of civic and ethnic conceptions of US nationhood, from founding-era national character debates through Civil War theorists to modern survey findings that most Americans blend both.
American Nazi Party
American Nazi Party: neo-Nazi organization founded by George Lincoln Rockwell in Arlington, Virginia, in 1959 (some sources say 1958), renamed National Socialist White People's Party in 1967; ancestors of later US white supremacist groups.
American neoclassical sculpture
American neoclassical sculpture is the marble statuary made by American sculptors in the nineteenth century in the style of ancient Greek and Roman art, largely by expatriates in Florence and Rome.
American Neoclassicism
American Neoclassicism was the American adaptation of the European Neoclassical style, a revival of ancient Greek and Roman models in painting, sculpture, and architecture, eagerly adopted after the Revolution.
American Nightmare (TV series)
American Nightmare is a 2024 Netflix three-part true-crime docuseries by Felicity Morris and Bernadette Higgins about the 2015 Vallejo kidnapping of Denise Huskins, dismissed by police as a Gone Girl-style hoax until Matthew Muller was caught.
American Ninja
American Ninja (1985) is a Cannon Films martial arts action film directed by Sam Firstenberg, starring Michael Dudikoff as Pvt. Joe Armstrong fighting ninjas in the Philippines; it spawned sequels and grossed $9.7M in the US.
American Ninja Warrior
American Ninja Warrior (ANW) is the NBC adaptation of Japan's Sasuke, running since 2009 on G4 then NBC. Season 18 winner Josiah Pippel; renewed through Season 20 with Mt. Midoriyama returning and a 2028 Olympics tie-in.
American Ninja Warrior Junior
American Ninja Warrior Junior is a children's obstacle-course competition series (2018-2021) spun off from American Ninja Warrior, for ages 9-14 in three brackets, hosted by Matt Iseman and Akbar Gbajabiamila on Universal Kids and Peacock.
American Ninja Warrior season 16
American Ninja Warrior season 16 (ANW 16), NBC obstacle competition, premiered June 3, 2024, 11 episodes; continued season 15's head-to-head racing format; Vance Walker became first back-to-back $1 million winner.
American Nuclear Society
The American Nuclear Society is an international, not-for-profit professional society for nuclear science and technology, founded in Washington, D.C. in 1954 with more than 10,000 members.
American Odyssey
American Odyssey (originally Odyssey) is a 2015 NBC conspiracy thriller created by Peter Horton, Adam Armus, and Kay Foster, starring Anna Friel as presumed-dead soldier Odelle Ballard; canceled after 13 episodes.
American open-wheel car racing
American open-wheel car racing, or Indy car racing, is North American single-seat, open-wheel racing. Top series: NTT INDYCAR SERIES; signature event: Indianapolis 500; sanctioning ran AAA, USAC, CART/IRL split, unified INDYCAR since 2008.
American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society
American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society (AOFAS), founded 1969 in Chicago, is the US specialty society of over 2,500 foot and ankle orthopaedic surgeons, based in Schaumburg, Illinois, providing CME, research grants, journals, and advocacy.
American Outlaws
American Outlaws is a 2001 American Western comedy directed by Les Mayfield, starring Colin Farrell as Jesse James, with Timothy Dalton as the Pinkerton detective pursuing him.
American packet trade
The American packet trade was a system of scheduled sailing lines from New York, begun by the Black Ball Line in 1818, that dominated transatlantic service until steam.
American paddlefish
American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula, spoonbill catfish): the last surviving paddlefish species, a large filter-feeding freshwater fish of the Mississippi basin with a paddle-shaped electrosensory rostrum; IUCN Vulnerable, Chinese paddlefish extinct 2020.
American Paint Horse
American Paint Horse: stock-type horse breed of Paint, Quarter Horse, or Thoroughbred lineage, registered by the APHA (founded 1965 by merger) with tobiano, overo, and tovero coat patterns; second-largest US breed registry.
American Pastoral
American Pastoral is Philip Roth's 1997 novel, Pulitzer winner 1998, first of the American Trilogy, narrated by Nathan Zuckerman about Seymour Swede Levov, whose daughter Merry bombs a post office in 1968.
American Pastoral (film)
American Pastoral (2016) is a drama film, Ewan McGregor's feature directorial debut, adapting Philip Roth's 1997 Pulitzer-winning novel. McGregor stars as Swede Levov with Jennifer Connelly and Dakota Fanning; Lionsgate released it to 24% on Rotten Tomatoes and a $541.5K US gross.
American Pekin
American Pekin (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus), also called White Pekin: a large white domestic duck breed from China, imported to the US in 1873, supplying about 90 percent of US duck meat and reaching market weight in 4 to 5 weeks.