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Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park (World Heritage Site)
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"This is the first in a series of three articles exploring the media of the United States in the 1990s. This first installment includes an overview plus a more detailed discussion of American newspapers and magazines. Subsequent installments treat the broadcast media and the interplay between the media and society."
Creator(s): Fredric A. Emmert | Date Published: ?
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"The creative campus initiative has left the station. One of its engineers explains where the tracks lead and how to sound the whistle."
Creator(s): Steven Tepper | Date Published: 2006-08
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"(September 2006) The United States is set to reach a milestone in October. It will become the third country—after China and India—to be home to at least 300 million people."
Creator(s): Sandra Yin, U.S. Population Bureau | Date Published: 2006
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"Although they changed travel and other plans, Americans continued to attend arts events in the twelve months after September 11, 2001 — based on the 2002 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA). Nearly one-third of adults reported going to at least one jazz, classical music, opera, musical, play or ballet performance during the twelve months ending August 2002, not including elementary or high school performances."
Creator(s): National Endowment for the Arts | Date Published: 2003-10
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"People participate in arts and culture in four primary ways: they attend programs and events, encourage their children to participate, make or perform art as amateurs, or support the arts through donations of time and money."
Creator(s): Chris Walker with Cory Fleming and Kay Sherwood | Date Published: 2003
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"Cultural participation includes creating, witnessing, preserving, and supporting artistic and cultural expression. Everything from attending a Broadway show to playing a violin solo with the community orchestra to reading literature can count as cultural participation."
Creator(s): Chris Walker, Stephanie Scott-Melnyk with Kay Sherwood | Date Published: 2002-11
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"Established by the United States Department of State in 1964, the ART In Embassies Program is a global museum that exhibits original works of art by U.S. citizens in the public rooms of approximately 180 American diplomatic residences worldwide."
Lead Managing Organization: U.S. Department of State | Start Date: 1964
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Cultural Policy 101: Demystifying the US Ecosystem
Creator(s): Knowledge Centre, Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2006-11-02
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"USTR recognizes the critical importance of intellectual property and innovation to the enhanced productivity and future growth of the U.S. economy."
Creator(s): Office of the United States Trade Representative | Date Published: 2006
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"A List of Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States in Force on January 1, 2006."
Creator(s): U.S. Department of State | Date Published: 2006
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"Entering its nineteenth consecutive year, Arts Advocacy Day is the only national event designed to bring together a broad cross section of America’s national cultural and civic organizations."
Creator(s): Americans for the Arts | Date Published: 2006
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Events listing
Creator(s): Cultural Commons | Date Published: 2006
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"The Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy is a leading national forum for arts policy intended to stimulate dialogue on policy and social issues affecting the arts."
Creator(s): Americans for the Arts | Date Published: 2006
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"This web site is an archive of the former USIA site as it stood in September 1999, and is now maintained as part of the Electronic Research Collection of historic State Department materials by the federal depository library at the University of Illinois at Chicago."
Creator(s): United States Information Agency | Date Published: 1999
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"President Kennedy’s words resonate more strongly than ever for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the 21st century. The Center opened its doors on September 8, 1971, and celebrates its birthday each September with the free Open House Arts Festival."
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"Promoting educational excellence for all Americans."
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"The American Symphony Orchestra League provides leadership and service to American orchestras while communicating to the public the value and importance of orchestras and the music they perform."
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"The historic mission of the Department is “to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce” of the United States. This has evolved, as a result of legislative and administrative additions, to encompass broadly the responsibility to foster, serve, and promote the Nation’s economic development and technological advancement."
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"The National Gallery of Art houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and works on paper from the Middle Ages to the present."
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"The President of the United States recognizes that the nation’s cultural life contributes to the vibrancy of society and the strength of democracy."
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"The U.S. National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization is a Federal Advisory Committee to the Department of State that supports worldwide humanitarian development and values by coordinating efforts and delivering expert advice from the Federal, State and Local Governments and from Non-Governmental Organizations on issues of Education, Science, Communications and Culture."
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"Transportation Enhancement Activities offer communities the opportunity to expand transportation choices. Activities such as safe bicycle and pedestrian facilities, scenic routes, beautification, and other investments increase opportunities for recreation, accessibility, and safety for everyone beyond traditional highway programs."
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"U.S. engagement in the world and the Department of State's engagement of the American public are indispensable to the conduct of foreign policy. The Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Karen Hughes, is laying the foundation for public diplomacy for the long term by implementing a comprehensive strategy."
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"Under recently passed legislation, we have changed our name from the General Accounting Office to the Government Accountability Office. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an agency that works for Congress and the American people."
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"We fund your local station and diverse programming that informs, educates, and inspires."
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U.S. Department of State
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VOA
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"The members of the Constitutional Convention signed the United States Constitution on September 17, 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Constitutional Convention convened in response to dissatisfaction with the Articles of Confederation and the need for a strong centralized government."
Creator(s): The Library of Congress | Date Published: 1787
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"Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument."
Creator(s): U.S. National Archives Experience | Date Published: 1776
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"The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that total U.S. population will reach 300 million in October. Immigration, especially from Latin America and Asia, drives much of this growth and promises to reshape the United States as a more diverse nation."
Creator(s): U.S Department of State | Date Published: 2006-10-03
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"How will technology change the arts world? Who owns what in the information age? How will museums survive in the future? The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society has supplied answers to these kinds of questions for over twenty-five years."
Creator(s): Heldref Publications | Date Published: 2005
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"The Wallace Foundation's Community Partnerships for Cultural Participation (CPCP) initiative was intended to encourage community foundations to expand audience-building programs and provide direct support for local cultural organizations and artists."
Creator(s): Francie Ostrower | Date Published: 2005-06
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"Controversial art is nothing new in American cultural life. Over the past 20 years, scandals have erupted on numerous occasions, in which government funds have gone to subsidize the production or exhibition of art considered by some to be obscene, blasphemous, or offensively unpatriotic."
Creator(s): Arthur C. Brooks | Date Published: 2005-03
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"Ten years ago a seminal blueprint for cultural and Ten years ago a seminal blueprint for cultural and heritage tourism was adopted by the more than 1,500 dedicated political and industry leaders and practitioners as part of their national agenda for the travel industry, which they developed at the 1995 White House Conference on Travel and Tourism."
Creator(s): Th is position paper was developed by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities for the 2005 U.S. Cultural & Heritage Tourism Summit | Date Published: 2005
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"The humanities serve the critical role of developing and preserving human thought and culture. Yet their importance can often be underestimated in a society distracted by mass entertainments and the next SUV."
Creator(s): The Foundation Center in cooperation with The American Academy of Arts & Sciences | Date Published: 2004-06
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"In this paper I suggest a reframing of the discourse around American cultural policy. Embracing Evan Alderson’s definition of cultural policy as a “system of arrangements,” I aim to shed light on who is participating in the discourse."
Creator(s): Roberto Bedoya - National Performance Network | Date Published: 2004
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"The Fulbright Program aims to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby to increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship." – J. William Fulbright"
Lead Managing Organization: U.S. Department of State Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs | Start Date: 1946
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"We in the Copyright Office are proud to be part of a long tradition of promoting progress of the arts and protection for the works of authors. Our homepage has been created with the desire to serve the copyright community of creators and users, as well as the general public."
Creator(s): The Library of Congress
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"For over 200 years, the basic role of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has remained the same: to promote the progress of science and the useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries."
Creator(s): United States Department of Commerce
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"A membership organization whose trade is discourse on ideas about arts and philanthropy within a diverse community of grantmakers."
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"Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America."
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"Founded in 1981, the National Humanities Alliance (NHA) is an advocacy coalition dedicated to the advancement of humanities education, research, preservation, and public programs. NHA is supported by more than eighty national, state and local Member Organizations, including: scholarly and professional associations; higher education associations; organizations of museums, libraries, historical societies and state humanities councils; university-based and independent humanities research centers."
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"Illuminating Issues of Public Policy."
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"Most people know that the National Park Service cares for national parks, a network of nearly 400 natural, cultural and recreational sites across the nation. The treasures in this system – the first of its kind in the world –have been set aside by the American people to preserve, protect, and share, the legacies of this land."
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"NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities."
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"The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the U.S. Department of State fosters mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries around the world."
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"The Center for Arts & Culture is an independent cultural policy think tank affiliated with George Mason University. Its mission is to inform and improve policy decisions that affect cultural life."
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"The Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies was founded by Princeton professors Stanley Katz and Paul DiMaggio in 1994."
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"The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage promotes the understanding and continuity of contemporary grassroots cultures in the United States and abroad. It produces the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, exhibitions, documentary films and videos, symposia, and educational materials. The Center conducts research, maintains archives, and provides educational and research opportunities."
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"The Center is the living, national memorial to President Wilson established by Congress in 1968 and headquartered in Washington, D.C. It is a nonpartisan institution, supported by public and private funds, engaged in the study of national and world affairs. The Center establishes and maintains a lively, neutral forum for free and informed dialogue."
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"The Center supports a democratic vision of American arts and cultural life."
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"The core mission of the Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA) is to acquire, archive, document and preserve high quality data sets on key topics in arts and cultural policy, and make them available in a user-friendly format to scholars, journalists, policy makers, artists, cultural organizations, and the public."
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"The Cultural Commons was created by the Center for Arts and Culture, a Washington based think tank, to help the creative and cultural communities stay informed about the critical issues facing the arts and culture, and take action to improve the policies that shape our cultural life."
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"The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt is a university-based research center dedicated to designing a new road map for cultural policy in America."
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"The Foundation Center's mission is to support and improve philanthropy by promoting public understanding of the field and helping grantseekers succeed."
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"The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s 122,000 libraries and 17,500 museums."
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"The Library serves as the research arm of Congress and is recognized as the national library of the United States. Its collections comprise the world's most comprehensive record of human creativity and knowledge."
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"The Mission of the Department of the Interior is to protect and provide access to our Nation's natural and cultural heritage and honor our trust responsibilities to Indian Tribes and our commitments to island communities."
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"The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) is the membership organization that unites, represents and serves the nation's state and jurisdictional arts agencies."
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"The National Endowment for the Arts exists to foster, preserve, and promote excellence in the arts, to bring art to all Americans, and to provide leadership in arts education."
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"The Urban Institute is a nonprofit nonpartisan policy research and educational organization established to examine the social, economic, and governance problems facing the nation."
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"The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is an international organization dedicated to helping to ensure that the rights of creators and owners of intellectual property are protected worldwide and that inventors and authors are, thus, recognized and rewarded for their ingenuity."
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"The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world’s trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. The goal is to help producers of goods and services, exporters, and importers conduct their business."
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"UNESCO promotes international co-operation among its 190 Member States and six Associate Members in the fields of education, science, culture and communication."
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"Welcome to the Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum complex and research organization."
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"Welcome! The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, through its Cultural Programs Division."
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"With over forty years as an active arts service organization, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (Arts Presenters) is the nexus for the performing arts community and the innovators in the field."
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