Driving to campus a few weeks ago to meet with my class called “Art and the Cultures of Childhood,” I heard on National Public Radio that Fred Rogers, at the age of 74, had died of stomach cancer.

PITTSBURGH — Gregg Behr’s family had four channels to choose from while he was growing up in the 1970s. Though there wasn’t much to choose from, one program in particular would play an outsized role ...

Despite growing up in a wealthy family and being taken to school by the family driver in a Cadillac, Fred McFeely Rogers—known as Mister Rogers to most of us —never appeared to have developed a taste ...

Fifty-five years ago Sunday, America was introduced to Fred Rogers, the man who would go on to become the nation's favorite neighbor.A tweet from WQED celebrated the anniversary of the "Mister Roger's ...

PITTSBURGH — On Sept. 21, 1967, Fred Rogers recorded the first full episode of the new “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” at WQED. The first national broadcast of that episode on Feb. 19, 1968, set into ...