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List of United States political families. Three brothers from one of American political families: John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy, pictured together in July 1960. Many families in the United States have produced multiple generations of politicians who have had a significant influence on government and public policy in their communities, states ...
An American family composed of the mother, father, children, and extended family. The out of wedlock birth rates by race in the United States from 1940 to 2014. The rate for African Americans is the purple line. Data is from the National Vital Statistics System Reports published by the CDC National Center for Health Statistics.
CBO Chart, U.S. Holdings of Family Wealth 1989 to 2013. The top 10% of families held 76% of the wealth in 2013, while the bottom 50% of families held 1%. Inequality increased from 1989 to 2013. [1] The inequality of wealth (i.e. inequality in the distribution of assets) has substantially increased in the United States in recent decades. [2]
In 1789, the at-large popular vote, the winner-take-all method, began with Pennsylvania and Maryland. Massachusetts, Virginia and Delaware used a district plan by popular vote, and state legislatures chose in the five other states participating in the election (Connecticut, Georgia, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and South Carolina).
In the 1920s, and 1930s, the metaphor "Gilded Age" began to be applied to a designated period in American history. The term was adopted by literary and cultural critics as well as historians, including Van Wyck Brooks, Lewis Mumford, Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard, Vernon Louis Parrington, and Matthew Josephson.
Eugenics, the set of beliefs and practices which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population, [ 1][ 2] played a significant role in the history and culture of the United States from the late 19th century into the mid-20th century. [ 3] The cause became increasingly promoted by intellectuals of the Progressive Era. [ 4][ 5]
The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970. [ 1] It was substantially caused by poor economic and social conditions due to prevalent racial ...
The Fairbanks ( Fairbank) family is a noted American and Canadian family of English origin. The family descends from colonist Jonathan Fairbanks, who emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts in 1633 with his family, settling at Dedham, Massachusetts three years later. [ 1] There he built the Fairbanks House, today the oldest surviving verified timber ...