American icons
Subtitle: an encyclopedia of the people, places, and things that have shaped our culture
By: edited by Dennis R. Hall and Susan Grove Hall
Publisher: Greenwood Press; ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
ISBN-13: 9780313027673
Subjects: Culture populaire; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Americana; Popular culture; Anthropology; Cultural; Civilization; Encyclopédies; Encyclopedias; Public Policy; Cultural Policy; Civilisation; Popular Culture; SOCIAL SCIENCE
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Alamo / Richard R. Flores; title: Muhammad Ali / J. Peter Williams; title: Amish / David L. Weaver-Zercher; title: Antiperspirant / Jimmy Dean Smith; title: Art fair / Mary Carothers and Sharon Scott; title: Fred Astaire / Michael Dunne; title: Lucille Ball / Rhonda Wilcox; title: Banjo / Jack Ashworth; title: Barbie / Dawn Heinecken; title: Bear / Richard Sanzenbacher; title: Beats / Jason R. Kirby; title: Betty Crocker / Pauline Adema; title: Bomb / Margot A. Henriksen; title: Daniel Boone / Richard Taylor; title: Boy Scout knife / R.H. Miller; title: Capitol / Karelisa V. Hartigan; title: Johnny Carson / Don Cusic; title: Cell phone / John P. Ferré; title: Ray Charles / Reginald Martin; title: Julia Child / Sara Lewis Dunne; title: Computer chip / Michael Bertz; title: Coney Island / Judith A. Adams-Volpe; title: Couch / Dennis Hall; title: Courtroom trial / David Ray Papke; title: Joan Crawford / Claude J. Smith; title: Crayola Crayon / Elizabeth Armstrong Hall; title: George Armstrong Custer / Michael C.C. Adams; title: James Dean / Geoffrey Weiss; title: Dinosaur / Mark A. Wilson; title: Dollar bill / Heinz Tschachler; title: Bob Dylan / Edward P. Comentale; title: Albert Einstein / Anthony O'Keefe; title: Emergency room / Robert Wolosin; title: Flea market / Michael Prokopow; title: Ford Mustang / Susan Grove Hall; title: Gettysburg / Randal Allred; title: GI / Michael Smith; title: Golden Gate Bridge / Kenneth M. Sanderson and Laura Kennedy; title: Billy Graham / David Fillingim; title: Grateful Dead / Nicholas Meriwether.; title: v. 2. Guardian angel / Scott Vander Ploeg; title: Gun / Michael C.C. Adams; title: Halloween costume / Sylvia Grider; title: Hard-boiled detective / Brendan Riley; title: Harley-Davidson motorcycle / Wendy Moon; title: Ernest Hemingway / R.H. Miller; title: Jimi Hendrix / Joy Haenlein; title: Audrey Hepburn / Lucy Rollin; title: Hershey bar / Dennis Hall; title: Hollywood / Thomas B. Byers; title: Horse / Barrett Shaw; title: Indian scout / Tom Holm; title: Martin Luther King, Jr. / Ricky L. Jones; title: Evel Knievel / Randy D. McBee; title: Kodak camera / Richard N. Masteller; title: Las Vegas / Lawrence E. Mintz; title: Rush Limbaugh / Thomas A. Greenfield; title: Charles A. Lindbergh / Roger B. Rollin; title: List / Dennis Hall; title: Log cabin / William J. Badley with Linda Badley; title: Lorraine Motel / Thomas S. Bremer; title: Jessica Lynch / Anna Froula; title: Loretta Lynn / Don Cusic; title: MAD magazine / Charles Hatfield; title: Madonna / Diane Pecknold; title: McDonalds / Betsy Beaulieu; title: Mexican-American border / Susana Perea-Fox and Iván Figueroa; title: Miami / Gary Harmon; title: Mickey Mouse / M. Thomas Inge; title: Miss Manners / Dennis Hall; title: Marilyn Monroe / Ann C. Hall; title: Mount Rushmore / Susan Grove Hall with Dennis Hall; title: Muppets / Robert Barshay; title: NASCAR's Bristol Motor Speedway / Barbara S. Hugenberg and Lawrence W. Hugenberg; title: Niagara Falls / Patrick McGreevy; title: Jack Nicholson / Thomas A. Van; title: Olmsted Park / Thomas J. Mickey; title: One-room schoolhouse / Ray B. Browne; title: Oscar / Robert Holtzclaw; title: Patchwork quilt / Judith Hatchett; title: Walter Payton / Clyde V. Williams; title: Polyester / Patricia A. Cunningham; title: Poster child / Mary Johnson; title: Elvis Presley / George Plasketes.; title: v. 3. Railroad / Arthur H. Miller; title: Robot / Ira Wells; title: Eleanor Roosevelt / Maurine H. Beasley; title: Rosie the Riveter / Kathleen L. Endres; title: Route 66 / Thomas A. Greenfield; title: Babe Ruth / J. Peter Williams; title: Scrapbook / Patricia Prandini Buckler; title: Tupac Shakur / Mickey Hess; title: Spaceship /Angela Hague; title: Sports bar / William R. Klink; title: Stadium / Sylvester Frazier, Jr.; title: Stonewall / Thomas Piontek; title: Suburbia / Philip C. Dolce; title: Superman / P. Andrew Miller; title: Tara / Diane Calhoun-French; title: Tattoo / Karen Aubrey; title: Henry David Thoreau / Daniel S. Kerr; title: Tractor / Robert T. Rhode; title: Tupperware / Judith Hatchett; title: Underground Railroad / J. Blaine Hudson; title: Viagra / Bennett Kravitz; title: Video game / Ken S. McAllister and Judd Ethan Ruggill; title: Vietnam Veterans Memorial / Linda Marie Small; title: Wal-Mart / Richard Daniels; title: John Wayne / David Magill; title: Whistler's mother / Elaine A. King; title: Oprah Winfrey / R. Mark Hall; title: Witch / Linda Badley; title: Tiger Woods / Michael K. Schoenecke; title: Wright brothers / Roger B. Rollin; title: Zipper / Robert Friedel.