* 1882 – Bascom Lamar Lunsford, American lawyer, folklorist, and folk musician ( d. 1973 )

American folklorist and musicologist Alan Lomax visited Nevis in 1962 in order to conduct long-term research into the black folk culture of the island.

Ruth Benedict ( born Ruth Fulton, June 5, 1887 – September 17, 1948 ) was an American anthropologist and folklorist.

* January 28 – Zora Neale Hurston, American folklorist and author ( b. 1891 )

** Alan Lomax, American folklorist and musicologist ( d. 2002 )

** J. Frank Dobie, American folklorist and journalist ( d. 1964 )

* July 19 – Alan Lomax, American folklorist and musicologist ( b. 1915 )

Aradia ( possibly a corrupted form Erodiade, the Italian form of the name of Herodias ) is one of the principal figures in the American folklorist Charles Leland ’ s 1899 work Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, which he believed to be a genuine religious text used by a group of pagan witches in Tuscany, a claim that has subsequently been disputed by other folklorists and historians.

In 1899, the American folklorist Charles Leland published Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, a book which he claimed was the religious text belonging to a group of Tuscan witches who venerated Diana as the Queen of the Witches.

* John Lomax, American musicologist and folklorist.

However American folklorist Richard M. Dorson found that O ' Reilly invented the stories as " fakelore ", and later writers either borrowed tales from O ' Reilly or added further adventures of their own invention to the cycle.

* Newman Ivey White ( 1892 – 1948 ), Percy Bysshe Shelley expert and American folklorist

* Juan Bautista Rael ( 1900-1993 ), American linguist and folklorist

During the New Deal, with his father, famed folklorist and collector John A. Lomax and later alone and with others, Lomax recorded thousands of songs and interviews for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress on aluminum and acetate discs.

Irish historian Thomas Keightley has argued that the German kobold and the Scandinavian nis predate the Irish fairy and the Scottish brownie and influenced the beliefs in those entities, but American folklorist Richard Mercer Dorson has discounted this argument as reflecting Keightley's bias toward Gotho-Germanic ideas over Celtic ones.

Francis James Child ( February 1, 1825 – September 11, 1896 ) was an American scholar, educator, and folklorist, best known today for his collection of folk songs known as the Child Ballads.

John Avery Lomax ( September 23, 1867-January 26, 1948 ) was an American teacher, a pioneering musicologist and folklorist who did much for the preservation of American folk songs.

* John V. Robinson ( born 1960 ), American photographer, writer, and folklorist

* George Malcolm Laws ( born 1919 ), an American folklorist also known as G. Malcolm Laws

* Charles Godfrey Leland, American humorist and folklorist

In the 1950s, he acted as a guide to the American folklorist, Alan Lomax, who collected many field recordings in Scotland.

* Pete Seeger: ( b. 1919 ) American musician and folklorist

Study of folklore was strengthened by two stremas ( sicsic ); one is Finnish folklorist Lauri Honko and another is Peter J. Claus of American folklore.

* Sabina Magliocco, “ Italian American Stregheria and Wicca: Ethnic Ambivalence in American Neopaganism ,” in Modern Paganism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, ed.

In spite of the disaster, Wright completed during this period plans for the Lake Tahoe resort, in which he suggested the shapes of American Indian tepees -- a project of great and appropriate charm, that came to nothing.

When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

The suit, as we have seen, came before the courts when patent attorneys, inventors, and laymen were making mounting demands for reforms in the American patent system.

Last month in Ghana an American missionary discovered when he came to pay his hotel bill that the usual rate had been doubled.

As an American Catholic of Irish ancestry, I came with certain preconceptions and expectations ; ;

The Secretary promulgated the Constitution of American Samoa which was approved by a Constitutional Convention of the people of American Samoa and a majority of the voters of American Samoa voting at the 1966 election, and came into effect in 1967.

In English, " American " was used especially for people in the British America, and came to be applied to citizens of the United States when the country was formed.

Interestingly, the London Confession of 1689 was later used by Calvinistic Baptists in America ( called the Philadelphia Baptist Confession ), whereas the Standard Confession of 1660 was used by the American heirs of the English General Baptists, who soon came to be known as Free Will Baptists.

One particular contribution towards formalizing these differences came from Noah Webster, who wrote the first American dictionary ( published 1828 ) with the intention of showing that people in the United States spoke a different dialect from Britain, much like a regional accent.

Together with earlier arrivals to the United States ( including the indigenous American Indians, Hispanic and Latino Americans, particularly in the West, Southwest, and Texas ; African Americans who came to the United States in the Atlantic slave trade ; and early colonial migrants from Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and elsewhere ), these new waves of immigrants had a pro profound impact on national or regional cuisine.

* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.

With the American Revolutionary War came " Brother Jonathan " as another personification and finally after the War of 1812 Uncle Sam appeared.

The modern American Media came into being after Generoso Pope, Jr., longtime owner of The National Enquirer, died in 1988, and his tabloids came under new ownership.

The company was badly hit by the economic contraction of the early 1980s as worldwide sales of Aston Martin shrank to three per week and chairman Alan Curtis together with fellow shareholders American Peter Sprague and Canadian George Minden came close to shutting down the production side of the business, to concentrate on service and restoration.

They rented the apartment of an American man who was away for the summer, and Nin came across a number of French paperbacks: " One by one, I read these books, which were completely new to me.

A number of serious concerns about the technical abilities of the system came to light, many of which reached popular magazines such as Scientific American.

Before U-27 came round Nicosians bow, Baralong hauled down the American flag, hoisted the Royal Navy's White Ensign, and unmasked her guns.

As time progressed, English country dances were spread and reinterpreted throughout the Western world, and eventually the French form of the name came to be associated with the American folk dances, especially in New England ( this Gallicized name change may have followed a contemporary misbelief that the form was originally French ).

In 1775, George Washington came up from Virginia to take command of fledgling volunteer American soldiers camped on the Cambridge Common — today called the birthplace of the U. S. Army.

A notable event in the history of the American comic book came with the psychiatrist Fredric Wertham's criticisms of the medium in his book Seduction of the Innocent ( 1954 ), which prompted the American Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency to investigate comic books.

FBI records show that 85 % of COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed " subversive ," including communist and socialist organizations ; organizations and individuals associated with the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Congress of Racial Equality and other civil rights organizations ; black nationalist groups ; the American Indian Movement ; a broad range of organizations labeled " New Left ", including Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen ; almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation ; the National Lawyers Guild ; organizations and individuals associated with the women's rights movement ; nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for Puerto Rico, United Ireland, and Cuban exile movements including Orlando Bosch's Cuban Power and the Cuban Nationalist Movement ; and additional notable Americans — even Albert Einstein, who was a member of several civil rights groups, came under FBI surveillance during the years just prior to COINTELPRO's official inauguration .< ref >