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  2. Settlement and community houses in the United States

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    History University Settlement House, Manhattan. The movement spread to the United States in the late 1880s, with the opening of the Neighborhood Guild in New York City's Lower East Side in 1886, and the most famous settlement house in the United States, Hull-House (1889), was founded soon after by Jane Addams and Ellen Starr in Chicago. By 1887 ...

  3. History of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC. Numerous indigenous cultures formed, and many saw transformations in the 16th century away from more densely populated lifestyles and towards reorganized polities elsewhere.

  4. National service in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Military national service. Thomas Jefferson lobbied heavily to ban a professional, standing army, and pushed for the creation of a universal and classified militia system that obligated every physically capable male to render service. Though he failed to have such a clause written into the U.S. Constitution or Bill of Rights, Jefferson ...

  5. List of satirical news websites - Wikipedia

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    United States: 2011 Hard Drive: hard-drive.net United States: 2017 The Hard Times: thehardtimes.net United States: 2014 Humor Times: humortimes.com United States: 1991 Huzlers: huzlers.com United States: 2014 Islamica News: islamicanews.com United States: 1999 Le Journal de Mourréal journaldemourreal.com Canada (Québec) 2012 Khabaristan Times ...

  6. Wikipedia:Community portal - Wikipedia

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    Revive WikiProject United States governors. This WikiProject is dedicated to the leaders of the 50 U.S. states. If you agree, post a message on the WikiProject talk page. WikiProject AI Cleanup has recently been started to combat the addition of problematic AI-generated content. Interested editors are encouraged to join!

  7. Popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art or mass art) [1] [2] and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time. Popular culture also encompasses the activities and feelings ...

  8. Wikipedia:Portal - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia Portals. Portals serve as enhanced "main pages" for specific broad subjects. Portals are meant primarily for readers, while encouraging them to become editors of Wikipedia by providing links to project spaces. Portals are created for encyclopedic topics only and not for article maintenance categories.

  9. History of the socialist movement in the United States

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    Socialism. The history of the socialist movement in the United States spans a variety of tendencies, including anarchists, communists, democratic socialists, social democrats, Marxists, Marxist–Leninists, Trotskyists and utopian socialists. It began with utopian communities in the early 19th century such as the Shakers, the activist visionary ...