Charles Capper

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Charles Capper
Born1944
DiedJuly 1, 2021(2021-07-01) (aged 76–77)
Minneapolis, Minnesota
NationalityAmerican
Alma materJohns Hopkins University
University of California, Berkeley
AwardsBancroft Prize (1993)
Scientific career
FieldsIntellectual history
InstitutionsBoston University (2001-)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1986-2001)
Doctoral advisorHenry May

Charles Capper (1944 – July 1, 2021) was an American historian known for his work on Transcendentalism and his biographies of Margaret Fuller.

Life

Capper graduated from

Minneapolis, Minnesota, on July 1, 2021, from complications of Parkinson's disease.[4]

Awards

Works

  • Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life. Oxford University Press. 1994. .
  • Charles Capper; Cristina Giorcelli, eds. (2007). Margaret Fuller: transatlantic crossings in a revolutionary age. University of Wisconsin Press. .
  • Charles Capper; Conrad Edick Wright, eds. (1999). Transient and Permanent: The Transcendentalist Movement in Its Contexts. Massachusetts Historical Society. .
  • David A. Hollinger; Charles Capper, eds. (2006). The American Intellectual Tradition (5th ed.). Oxford University Press. .
  • Anthony J. La Vopa, Nicholas Phillipson, Charles Capper, eds. Modern Intellectual History.

References

  1. ^ "Boston University Department of History Faculty". Archived from the original on 2009-12-13. Retrieved 2009-12-29.
  2. ^ David A. Hollinger and Charles Capper, eds., The American Intellectual Tradition: A Source Book (New York, 1989, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016).
  3. ^ David A. Hollinger, "Charles Capper, Romantic America, and Intellectual History," Modern Intellectual History (2018).
  4. ^ "Charles Capper, 1944-2021 | Society for US Intellectual History".
  5. ^ "Charles Capper - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2009-12-29.

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