“The vernacular tradition, in its spontaneity and its unself-conscious freedom, is a better index to the American character than any of the records of the cultivated arts.”

About John A. Kouwenhoven

Historian • American

John Atlee Kouwenhoven was a pioneering American cultural historian and professor of English. He is best known for his influential 1948 book, 'The Arts in Modern American Civilization,' which explored the relationship...