The result was a collection of 280 songs, ballads, ditties, brought together from all regions of America, more than one hundred never before published: The American Songbag.

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

Because of its pioneering efforts, Acadia is a laureate of Washington ’ s Smithsonian Institution and a part of the permanent research collection of the National Museum of American History.

* Paul Auster's collection of short stories entitled True Tales of American Life contains a story (' Mathematical Aphrodisiac ' by Alex Galt ) in which amicable numbers play an important role.

This library had an extensive collection of materials about Native American linguistics and folklore, originally collected by James Hammond Trumbull.

Bass music ( often known in the UK as UK Bass ) is a collection of various styles of urban dance music that draw influences from American club hip-hop, UK garage and a variety of world ghettofunk genres.

Smith received international acclaim for the collection The Star-Treader was received very favorably by American critics, one of whom named Smith " the Keats of the Pacific ".

Due to economic downturn Golden State was forced to sell their entire art collection to ward off its mounting debts and as of spring 2011 the National Museum of African American History and Culture had offered $ 750, 000 to purchase the artworks which led to a controversy regarding the importance of the artworks which have been estimated to be worth at least $ 5 million.

The Walter O. Evans collection of African American art.

* Laigle, Mathilde, Le livre des trois vertus de Christine de Pisan et son milieu historique et littéraire, Paris, Honoré Champion, 1912, 375 pages, collection: Bibliothèque du XVe siècle siècle ( this book is the translation of an American thesis of Mathilde Laigle, Columbia U. )

record collection ) where they danced to American swing music, which a DJ played on a single turntable when a jukebox was not available.

The Chester Beatty Library houses the famous collection of manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books and decorative arts assembled by American mining millionaire ( and honorary Irish citizen ) Sir Alfred Chester Beatty ( 1875 – 1968 ).

* Metamagical Themas ( ISBN 0-465-04566-9 ) ( collection of Scientific American columns and other essays, all with postscripts )

The same year, his interest in music was further stimulated when his father brought home a collection of American 45s by artists including Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, The Platters, Fats Domino, Elvis Presley and Little Richard.

He returned to Germany in 1930 and in 1931 he accepted a curatorial position at the American Museum of Natural History, where he played the important role of brokering and acquiring the Walter Rothschild collection of bird skins, which was being sold in order to pay off a blackmailer.

* Art of the States: electronic Small collection of electronic works by American composers

Throughout the 1960s and early to mid-1970s, American scholar Bertrand Harris Bronson published an exhaustive, four-volume collection of the then-known variations of both the texts and tunes associated with what came to be known as the Child Canon.

This earlier collection — which includes the famous Jelly Roll Morton, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and Muddy Waters sessions, as well as Lomax ’ s prodigious collections made in Haiti and Eastern Kentucky ( 1937 ) — is the provenance of the American Folklife Center " at the library of Congress

The Whitney was founded in 1931, as an answer to the then newly founded ( 1928 ) Museum of Modern Art's collection of mostly European modernism and its neglect of American Art.

Prolific American writer Joyce Carol Oates wrote an introduction for a collection of Lovecraft stories.

After the end of the American Civil War, he published Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War, ( 1866 ) a collection of over 70 poems that generally was ignored by the critics, though a few gave him patronizingly favorable reviews.

The first influences of African American Culture into hymns came from Slave Songs of the United States a collection of slave hymns complied by William Francis Allen who had difficulty pinning them down from the oral tradition, and though he succeeded, he points out the awe inspiring effect of the hymns when sung in by their originators.

American novelist David Foster Wallace described Steps as a " collection of unbelievably creepy little allegorical tableaux done in a terse elegant voice that's like nothing else anywhere ever ".

* 1981 – In a private meeting with U. S. President Ronald Reagan, French Prime Minister François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing that the Soviets had been stealing American technological research and development.

In 2000, John Updike selected his short story " Gold Coast " for his collection Best American Short Stories of the Century ( Houghton Mifflin ).

Many stories have developed since the founding long ago to become a part of America's folklore and cultural awareness, and non-native American folklore especially includes any narrative which has contributed to the shaping of American values and belief systems.

Castor includes two extant species, North American Beaver ( Castor canadensis ) ( native to North America ) and Eurasian Beaver ( Castor fiber ) ( Eurasia ).

CBI's Burroughs Corporation Records includes over 100, 000 photographs depicting the entire visual history of Burroughs from its origin as the American Arithmometer Corporation in 1886 to its merger with the Sperry Corporation to form the Unisys Corporation in 1986.

) Mack Library's Special Collections includes an American Hymnody Collection of about 700 titles.

Behavior or behaviour ( see American and British spelling differences ) is the range of actions and mannerisms made by organisms, systems, or artificial entities in conjunction with their environment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as the physical environment.

" According to West and Sanders, when talking about conspiracies in the Vietnam era, Pipes includes within the fringe element anyone who entertains the thought that conspiracies played a role in the major political scandals and assassinations that rocked American politics in the Vietnam era.

The container includes the inscription: " Interred herein are remains of American Clyde W. Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto and the solar system's ' third zone '.

Rick Dees, at the time a radio DJ in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded " Disco Duck " ( 1976 ) and " Dis-Gorilla " ( 1977 ); Frank Zappa parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in " Dancin ' Fool " on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album, and " Disco Boy " on his 1976 Zoot Allures album ; and " Weird Al " Yankovic's 1981 eponymous debut album includes a disco song called " Gotta Boogie ", an extended pun on the similarity of the disco subgenre name " boogie " to the American slang word " booger " and its British counterpart " bogey ".

The program includes a student ambassador component which sends American youth on educational trips to other countries.

* The American Deists: Voices of Reason & Dissent in the Early Republic by Kerry S. Walters ( University of Kansas Press, 1992 ), which includes an extensive bibliographic essay

Other notable graduates of Dalhousie includes Donald O. Hebb, who helped advanced the field of neuropsychology, and Kathryn D. Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space.

The two-disc set includes the American television version and the theatrical version Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow in widescreen format.

The American legal system includes both state courts and federal courts.

The Gulf Coast of the United States, sometimes referred to as the Gulf South, South Coast, or 3rd Coast, comprises the coasts of American states that are on the Gulf of Mexico, which includes Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida and are known as the Gulf States.

It was the 8th manned Gemini flight, the 16th manned American flight and the 24th spaceflight of all time ( includes X-15 flights over ).

Scholes ' analysis includes mention of " untenable " and " doubtful " claims, as well as " an American misattribution ".

This category includes the Council of Europe ( CoE ), European Union ( EU ), NATO, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, African Union ( AU ), Organization of American States ( OAS ), Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ), Arab League, and Union of South American Nations.

The American Declaration of Independence includes the words ( which echo Locke ) " all men are created equal ; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights ; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ; that to insure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Native American music often includes drumming and / or the playing of rattles or other percussion instruments but little other instrumentation.

* San Juan Port-Mainly divided in three: one in Old San Juan which includes cargo / freight and cruise ships, the Pan American Port Terminal in Isla Grande section mostly for cruise ships, and Puerto Nuevo, exclusively for freight / cargo ships.

Rather than belonging ( like Zenaida ) to the American dove clade around Leptotila, the DNA sequence data show Ectopistes to be part of a radiation that includes the " typical " Old World pigeons ( e. g., Domestic Pigeon Columba livia ) and the Eurasian turtledoves ( Streptopelia ) and Patagioenas, as well as the cuckoo-doves and relatives of the Wallacea region and its surroundings.

* Richard III Society, American Branch — includes links to online editions of many primary texts and secondary sources