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American Dream
The American Dream is the national ethos of opportunity, coined by James Truslow Adams in The Epic of America (1931). Covers its founding ideals, historical strands, and measured economic mobility.
American Futurist
The American Futurist is a publication founded April 15, 2020, promoting American Futurism and revolutionary Fascist ideals; it calls itself a media organization and think tank, disavows Atomwaffen Division, and publishes via Tor, Telegram, and Gab.
American Indian Movement
The American Indian Movement (AIM) is a grassroots Native American rights organization founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in July 1968 by Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellecourt, and George Mitchell.
American Jewish Committee
American Jewish Committee (AJC), founded November 11, 1906 in New York, is a nonpartisan Jewish advocacy organization defending Jewish civil and religious rights worldwide, distinct from the American Jewish Congress, known for its annual State of Antisemitism in America surveys.
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC, the Joint), US Jewish humanitarian organization founded 1914 after Morgenthau's $50,000 cablegram; rescued 1,000,000+ Jews, aided DP camps, Israel's Malben, Agro-Joint, and non-sectarian disaster relief in 73 countries.
American Jews
American Jews: the U.S. Jewish community, about 7.5 million people (2.4% of adults) in 2020; defined by religion, ethnicity, and ancestry; shaped by Sephardic, German, and Eastern European immigration waves; politically liberal overall except Orthodox; increasingly concerned about antisemitism.
American Red Cross
The American Red Cross is a US humanitarian organization founded by Clara Barton in 1881, providing disaster relief and collecting about 46 percent of the nation's blood supply.
American upper class
The American upper class is the highest U.S. socioeconomic bracket, roughly 0.5–1% of the population, defined by great wealth, exclusive social institutions such as prep schools and country clubs, and corporate and political influence, distinct from the occupationally based upper middle class.
Americanization
Americanization: the process of "becoming American" and organized efforts to assimilate immigrants, especially the 1910s–1920s movement; also the global spread of American culture via brands, film, and media.
Americans
Americans are the people of the United States, defined legally by nationality and citizenship and including about 342 million people descended from Indigenous peoples, enslaved Africans, colonists, and immigrants.
Americans in the Philippines
Americans in the Philippines: U.S. citizens residing in or historically settled in the Philippines, from the 1898–1946 colonial period to today. Estimates range from about 220,000 to 700,000; the 2020 census counted only 6,306 U.S. citizens as foreign residents.
AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps, also known as the Corporation for National and Community Service, is the US federal agency for national service and volunteerism, created by an act President Bill Clinton signed in 1993.
Amhara people
Amhara (Amharic-speaking people of the Ethiopian central highlands; Amhara; Amara), one of Ethiopia's two largest ethnic groups, roughly one-fourth to one-third of the population, mainly Ethiopian Orthodox; Amharic was Ethiopia's official language until the 1990s, and the Fano conflict began in 2023.
Amis people
Amis people (阿美族; self-name Pangcah), Taiwan's largest officially recognized Indigenous group, about 235,000 people in 2025, living mainly in Hualien and Taitung; matrilineal society with male age classes and the ilisin Harvest Festival.
Amish way of life
Amish way of life: the daily living pattern of the Amish, Anabaptist Christians split from Mennonites in 1693, defined by the Ordnung rules, horse-and-buggy transport, Pennsylvania German, eighth-grade schooling, and 421,200 North Americans in 2026.
Amy Sacco
Amy Sacco, American nightclub owner from Chatham, New Jersey, founder of Manhattan clubs Lot 61 (1998) and Bungalow 8 (2001) and the restaurant Bette; called queen of New York nightlife.
An Essay on the Principle of Population
An Essay on the Principle of Population, Thomas Robert Malthus's 1798 anonymously published treatise arguing population grows geometrically while food grows arithmetically, with preventive and positive checks, poor-law policy implications, and influence on Darwin, economics, and neo-Malthusian thought.
Ancient Order of Hibernians
The Ancient Order of Hibernians, also known as the Ancient Order of Hibernians in America, is a Catholic Irish-American fraternal organization founded in New York City in 1836.
Andalusi refugee influx after the fall of Granada
The Andalusi refugee influx after the fall of Granada was the mass emigration of Muslims from Iberia to North Africa, beginning after Granada surrendered in 1492.
Andamanese peoples
Andamanese peoples are the indigenous Negrito groups of India's Andaman Islands: Great Andamanese, Jarawa, Onge, and Sentinelese. Once about 6,500 people in 1780, they declined catastrophically under colonization; the Sentinelese remain uncontacted.
Andreea Diaconu
Andreea Diaconu, Romanian fashion model born 1991 in Bucharest; active since 2006 (Christopher Kane), 189 runway shows, DNA Models mother agency, first Romanian to walk Victoria's Secret (2024).
Angelica Schuyler Church
Angelica Schuyler Church (1756, Albany; died 1814 or 1815) was an American socialite, eldest daughter of General Philip Schuyler, sister-in-law of Alexander Hamilton, wife of John Barker Church, and an influential correspondent of Jefferson, Hamilton, Washington, and Lafayette.
Anglo
Anglo: a term for English-speaking people or things of English or British origin, from Latin Anglus; in US usage it contrasts with Hispanic heritage, in Canada with French ancestry, and hemispherically with Latin America.
Anglo-Indian people
Anglo-Indian people: mixed European-paternal, Indian-maternal community in India, formerly called Eurasians (renamed 1911); defined by Article 366(2), reserved Lok Sabha seats 1952–2020, large post-1947 diaspora.
Angolan refugee repatriation
Angolan refugee repatriation was the UNHCR-led voluntary return of Angolan refugees after the 2002 civil war, bringing home roughly 410,000 people from 2003 to 2007.
Anisha Rosnah
Anisha Rosnah binti Adam (Anisha Rosnah Isa-Kalebic), born 1994, is the wife of Brunei's Prince Abdul Mateen, titled Pengiran Anak Isteri; married January 2024, daughter born 2026.
Anishinaabe
Anishinaabe (Anishinaabeg) is the collective identity of Great Lakes Indigenous peoples including Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi, united historically in the Three Fires alliance, with oral treaty traditions and modern self-government agreements.
Ann Curry
Ann Curry, born in 1956 in Agana, Guam, is an American broadcast journalist who was NBC's Today show news anchor from 1997 and co-anchor until her 2012 departure.
Ann Michael Maye
Ann Michael Maye (née Hudson, born 2003) is an American social media personality, wife of New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye, and creator of the viral Bakemas baking series on TikTok.
Ann Woodward
Ann Woodward (Ann Eden Woodward, born Evangeline Crowell) was a New York socialite who fatally shot her husband, William Woodward Jr., in 1955, claiming she mistook him for a burglar.