Charles Capper
American historian

Charles Capper

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Charles Capper is an American historian.

Life

He graduated from Johns Hopkins University, and from University of California, Berkeley with an M.A. and Ph.D. in history and taught fifteen years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has taught at Boston University since 2001. His current teaching topics involve American intellectual history.

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. Univ. 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. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-518339-9.  (5th edition 2006)
  • Anthony J. La Vopa, Nicholas Phillipson, Charles Capper, eds. Modern Intellectual History. ISSN 1479-2443