Charles Capper
Born1944
DiedJuly 1, 2021(2021-07-01) (aged 76–77)
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 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]

Awards

Works

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.