I am at the OAH 2022 conference in Boston this weekend. Yesterday I was so pleased to attend the USIH-solicited roundtable on the life and work of Charles Capper—“Charlie” to all there. The panel was chaired by David Hollinger, and included remarks from Megan Marshall, the award-winning biographer of Margaret Fuller; Nelson Lichtenstein, historian of labor movements and the 20th century Left and a friend of Capper’s since graduate school; and Andrew Delbanco, historian of the Transcendentalists and American romanticism. There were about eighteen conference-goers in attendance for the session; Jim Kloppenberg, Joan Rubin, and Mary Kelly were there. The Read more