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Although it has become associated with the rebellion of the beatnik generation, Kerouac's 'On The Road' actually reveals the author's limitations and conservatism.

Original video clips and interviews with some of the most risky literary artists about the greatest writer of the 50s and 60s.

Here is a straightforward guide to some of the best Beat Culture Documentaries.

The 'Beats' were a group of American writers who embraced originality and individuality through literature, sex, music and spirituality.

Kwanzaa reclaims rich African traditions that black Americans were denied through generations of slavery, and which society in general ignored for many more generations.

New York City was the birthplace of the Beat Generation, one of the biggest cultural movements of the 20th century.

New York City was the birthplace of the Beat Generation, one of the biggest cultural movements of the 20th century.

In the late 1940s, three boys at Reed College in Portland, Oregon would meet, become inspired by the Beat movement and become Beat writers.

The Beat Movement began in New York but quickly swept across the country to San Francisco where the West Coast Beats gathered.

Meet the women who inspired and loved Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs.

Meet the women who inspired and loved Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs.

From 1940 to 1945, uniquely American superheroes led the fight on two fronts: reinforcing traditional American values and portraying the Axis as sinister and sub-human.

Most westerners have always had the impression that the main unit of the Native American people is the tribe - for example, the Iroquois or Algonquin.

The history of Thanksgiving is not just about Pilgrims. Learn about the role Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt had in creating the modern Thanksgiving.

Classical music takes a stab at diplomacy as the New York Philharmonic plans a tour of North Korea, hoping to improve relations between two hostile nations.

Seeing Emily, a book written in verse for teens, shows how a sixteen year old artist, Emily Wu, resolves the differences between her Chinese home and American school.

The end of the 1960's seen the rise of the counter-culture movement in America and with it came Easy Rider signaling a change in Hollywood.

As an attack on American capitalist values, director Ernst Lubitsch creates visual and ideological associations between Hell and American's wealthiest.

Breaking up, divorce, and separation are difficult. The rewards for keeping a relationship alive are often greater than deciding to go it alone.

His U.S. owners regretted selling him, but it was too late for Ferdinand. The 1986 Derby champ was "disposed of" in Japan after serving unsuccessfully at stud.

A 2007 Pew survey shows that religion continues to play an active role in American public and private lives, and that America is not as secular as Europe.

Kwanzaa is a ritual based on African celebrations held typically at the end of each year.

Hard-boiled detectives are individuals living outside the bounds of society. Often violent and morose, they nonetheless project an irresistible freedom from conformity.

Barack Obama is executing a long-overdue strategy for Democrats-he is talking morality and showing that Republican policies of the past decade are anything but moral.

Didion shows how she and others have been enthralled by the city and reveals the letdown they all experience. Yet, for Didion, a sense of hope seems to lurk throughout.

Voters giving the Democrats control of Congress and the White House responded to the message of hope but many Americans still embrace conservative values and goals.

As a film setting Los Angeles has proven able to fulfill a variety of disparate tasks.

Many of today's commercials and print ads show a new attitude in advertising and it just may be what consumers want to get them motivated.

Erdrich's seminal novel highlights the American stereotypes associated with Native American culture, using the landscape of the reservation to subvert such assertions.

On November 4, 2008 the people of the United States elected the country´s first African American president. They also elected a world leader.

Obama, an outspoken critic of the CIA, must now work closely with the agency. His nominee for Director of the CIA may indicate a troubled relationship lay ahead.

In Sui Sin Far's "Wisdom of the New," Pau Lin kills her son as a result of her fear and resistance to American culture.

"We hooked up" is the catchphrase of no-commitment intimacy in today's college culture. But what does it really mean to "hook up?"

An opportunity for writers to share real-life stories that will inspire other women.

Although the United States is Venezuela's largest trading partner, the exchange of goods and services between the two countries is constrained by opposing business norms.

The Anti-Imperialist League represented the ideologies of prominent American writers, educators, and Mugwump Republicans opposed to the extension of US hegemony.

The Chinese nagivate the business world in other ways that is unfamiliar to American practices. Through understanding of this way of life, innovation is born.

Gender identities are socially constructed and reinforced in advertising and other media. A 2009 commercial for the Ford F-150 truck reinforces a violent masculinity.

The growth of late 19th century American cities can be attributed to an influx of rural people as well as masses of European immigrants seeking a better way of life.

Maryl Streep, Nora Ephron and Julie Powell collaborate to fold together their lives with the one whom Time Magazine called "Our Lady of the Ladel": Julia Child.

As Obama is sworn in as President of the United States, he faces an resurgent Russia with growing global influence as well as strained Washington-Moscow relations.

Teach persuasive writing and the meaning of freedom of speech while integrating the social studies curriculum with a literacy unit focusing on how to write a letter.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck of The View campaigned with Gov. Sarah Palin in Tampa on Sunday, October 26, 2008 and called the focus on Palin's wardrobe "deliberately sexist."

The Obama administration will focus on the future instead of making ad-hoc decisions as the Bush administration did in the past.

Forbidden Planet is among the most fondly-remembered space epics of the 1950s. It's a psychological "space western" with all the elements of today's popcorn blockbusters.