Reading Letters from an American Farmer | Alexandria
Read Letters from an American Farmer by J. Hector St.John de Crevecoeur. Reimagining America through the eyes of an 18th-century farmer-philosopher, Crèvecoeur's letters radically challenged European notions of identity by asking "What is an American?" His startling answer - that America transforms immigrants into new beings through the land itself - still provocatively questions how place shapes who we become.