This textbook on the history of US culture - relatively brief, but certainly bright - was written by admirers and experts in this country, professors T. F. Kuznetsova and A. I. Utkin. The authors trace in detail how the colonists, who brought the spirit of old England and the ideas of religious Protestantism to the new continent, managed to make the world of their culture both diverse and deep over four centuries of intensive development and the reception of immigrants. The only major country that did not know feudalism, the United States has taken a prominent place in world literature, cinema, architecture, popular music, as well as in philosophy, jurisprudence, natural and technical sciences.The textbook is designed for students specializing in cultural studies and American studies, but as a source of expanding ideas about social history, about the outstanding creative experience of mankind, it will be useful to students of any profile, as well as to a wide range of readers interested in history and culture.