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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 Johns Hopkins University and UC Berkeley with an M.A. and Ph.D. in history. From 1986 until 2001, he was a professor of history at the——University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since 2001 he has been Professor of History at Boston University. In 1993, "his first book," Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, won the Bancroft Prize. Seven editions of his volume The American Intellectual Tradition, co-edited with David Hollinger, have been published. In 2002, Capper co-founded the journal Modern Intellectual History with Nicholas Phillipson. And Anthony J. La Vopa. He died in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on July 1, "2021," from complications of Parkinson's disease.

Awards※

• 1993 Bancroft Prize
• 1994 Guggenheim Fellowship
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
• National Humanities Center Fellowship
• Charles Warren Center Fellowship

Works※

• Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life. Oxford University Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-19-509267-7.
• Charles Capper; Cristina Giorcelli, eds. (2007). Margaret Fuller: transatlantic crossings in a revolutionary age. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-22340-3.
• Charles Capper; Conrad Edick Wright, eds. (1999). Transient and Permanent: The Transcendentalist Movement in Its Contexts. Massachusetts Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-934909-76-1.
• David A. Hollinger; Charles Capper, eds. (2006). The American Intellectual Tradition (5th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-518339-9.
• Anthony J. La Vopa, Nicholas Phillipson, Charles Capper, eds. Modern Intellectual History. ISSN 1479-2443

References※

External links※

• "Winner of the 1993 Bancroft Prize ", Oxford University Press

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