The Bourgeoisie Will Fall and Fall Forever‟: The New-York Tribune, the 1848 French Revolution, and the Evolution of Social Democratic Discourse in the United States

This article surveys the history of Horace Greeley\u27s New-York Tribune to explore the social unease and contradictory impulses that gave rise to an American liberal tradition

Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom (book review)

The article reviews the book Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom, by Robert C. Williams

More Anon : American Socialism and Margaret Fuller\u27s 1848

Chapter in Margaret Fuller and Her Circles, edited by Brigitte Bailey, Katheryn P. Viens, and Conrad Edick Wright. About the book: These essays mark the maturation of scholarship on Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), one of the most important public intellectuals of the nineteenth century and a writer whose works have been much revived in recent decades. The authors—leading scholars of Fuller, Transcendentalism, and the antebellum period—consider anew Fuller the critic, the journalist, the reformer, the traveler, and the social and cultural observer, and make fresh contributions to the study of her life and work. Drawing on developments in gender theory, transatlantic studies, and archival excavations of the networks of reform, this volume defines Fuller as a significant intellectual precursor, a critic who analyzed and challenged the dominant interpretive paradigms of her own time and who remains strikingly relevant for ours.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/1329/thumbnail.jp

Beyond Party: Cultures of Antipartisanship in Northern Politics before the Civil War (book review)

Reviews the book Beyond Party: Cultures of Antipartisanship in Northern Politics Before the Civil War, by Mark Voss-Hubbard

Fourierism in America

Entry in The Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment, edited by Mark G. Spencer. About the book: The Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment is the first reference work on this key subject in early American history. With over 500 original essays on key American Enlightenment figures, it provides a comprehensive account to complement the intense scholarly activity that has centered on the European Enlightenment recently.There are substantial and original essays on the major American Enlightenment figures, including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, David Rittenhouse, Benjamin Rush, Jonathan Edwards, and many others. The collection is wide-ranging and includes many topical essays and entries on dozens of often-overlooked secondary figures, offering a fresh definition of the Enlightenment in America.It has long been known that Americans made their own contributions to the Enlightenment, most notably by putting Enlightenment ideas to work in defining the American Revolution, the United States Constitution, and the nature of the early American Republic. These volumes show that the American Enlightenment was more far reaching than even that story assumes. This remarkable work shows that the American Enlightenment constitutes the central framework for understanding the development of American history between c. 1740 and c. 1820.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/1330/thumbnail.jp

Cassius Marcellus Clay: Firebrand of Freedom (book review)

Reviews the book Cassius Marcellus Clay: Firebrand of Freedom (Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c1976) by H. Edward Richardson

“Her Cause Against Herself‟: Margaret Fuller, Emersonian Democracy, and the Nineteenth-Century Public Intellectual

Recent interpretations of Margaret Fuller\u27s ideological significance have embedded her biography in an older understanding of Transcendentalism\u27s history that imagines a post‐Brook Farm cleavage between ‘Emersonian individualists’ and more socially conscious communitarians. In late 1844, Margaret Fuller left New England for employment at Horace Greeley\u27s New‐York Tribune, a moment that a number of biographers and critics have imagined as Fuller\u27s own personal Brook Farm, her resignation from the ‘party of Emerson.’ Recent work in the history of Transcendentalism and romantic liberalism more generally, however, has been more careful about confusing romantic individuality with modern bourgeois individualism. This essay furthers the discussion of Transcendentalist ideology by arguing that Fuller\u27s New York journalism was representative of the broad intellectual unity of the movement\u27s democratic experiments – experiments that experientially, socially, and intellectually aimed to overcome the boundaries between the body and the mind, manual and mental labor, and the manual and mental classes

The Grand Old Man of Maine: Selected Letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914 (book review)

The article reviews the book The Grand Old Man of Maine: Selected Letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914, edited by Jeremiah E. Goulka