"They used to be a large part of summer as a kid, but now that the Depression-era babies are mostly gone, the interest is not ...

From Jell-O salad to chocolate chip cookies in vending machines to the entire concept of breakfast for dinner, several American food customs are genuinely distinctive — and most of them have ...

Halloween keeps proving to be the exception, holding onto the same core rituals almost unchanged year after year.

America is a nation built with traditions, some of which may seem peculiar to outsiders, but these customs are deeply ingrained in American culture. For example, the tradition of Thanksgiving dates ...

Every country has its quirks, things that feel completely natural to locals but stop outsiders cold. The United States, for all its cultural exports, is surprisingly full of them. Europeans who visit, ...

So much of what we grew up with has disappeared, from the tools we once relied on to the habits grown out of a slower pace to life. It's progress, many say, but others might beg to differ on a few ...

The Washington Post’s list of the 25 most influential works of American culture was never going to be a complete survey given the many constraints we gave ourselves at the start of the project: Only ...

Has America lost its monopoly on cool? The Opinion culture editor Nadja Spiegelman joins the American expats and authors W.

BISMARCK, N.D., May 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- North Dakota is where the spirit of the American West lives on in rodeo arenas, historic villages, and across windswept prairies. Whether you're drawn to ...

Pamela S. Nadell, Antisemitism: An American Tradition (New York: W.W. Norton, 2025) pp. 332. When Jonathan Sarna, rightly acknowledged as the Dean of American Jewish historians, wrote the second ...