Charles Capper

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.^[1] 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.^[2] In 2002, Capper co-founded the journal Modern Intellectual History with Nicholas Phillipson and Anthony J. La Vopa.^[3] He died in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on July 1, 2021, from complications of Parkinson's disease.^[4]

• 1993 Bancroft Prize
• 1994 Guggenheim Fellowship^[5]
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
• National Humanities Center Fellowship
• Charles Warren Center Fellowship

• 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

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

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