Word: vecoeur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even occasional photographs are arranged in rooms that were liberally draped with flags and bunting for opening week. Each room is meant to illustrate a national trait; together, the exhibits are intended to answer the question posed by the French-born essayist Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur near the beginning of his 1782 Letters from an American Farmer: "What then is the American, this...
...early as 1782, it was already evident that the American experiment would produce something new in the history of human societies. "This is every man's country," wrote French-born Michel Guillaume St. Jean de Crèvecoeur, "Here, individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world." Even as Crèvecoeur wrote, the U.S. was a polyglot mix of English and Scotch, Irish and French, Dutch, German and Swedish...