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Louis Menand, Mona Simpson, and Emily Raboteau receive awards from the Chicago Tribune for The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, Off Keck Road, and “Bernie and Me,” respectively.
Louis Menand relates the origins of pragmatism from the Civil War to the Metaphysical Club to the 1894 Pullman Strike and Jane Addams’s Hull House in Chicago.
Now an American institution, it’s surprising to realize that kindergarten didn’t begin in the U.S. until 1837, when German educator Friedrich Froebel opened the first one. Norman Brosterman explores Froebel’s original ideas about the way we should educate our children.
Doss examines the changing dynamics of national identity captured in New Deal art and visual culture.