Margaret Fuller and Her Circles
April 8-10, 2010

Since her rediscovery in the 1970s as a major intellectual figure, Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) has become central to a striking new account of antebellum literature, history, and culture. Her significance as a writer and public intellectual in the 1830s and 1840s in New England, New York, and Europe has become visible even as a new understanding of this formative period in American culture has emerged among scholars; indeed, her work has helped to drive the emergence of this new understanding. Antebellum culture resulted from an extraordinary convergence of literary, social, and political re-imaginings with both national and transnational implications. As a Transcendentalist, translator, feminist theorist, book reviewer, teacher, literary journal editor, surveyor of reform institutions, traveler, journalist, political activist in the 1848 European revolutions, and foreign correspondent, Fuller was one of the central figures of this formative period in U.S. history and one of those who most fully articulated its meanings.

John Adams & Thomas Jefferson: Libraries, Leadership, and Legacy

Information on “John Adams & Thomas Jefferson: Libraries, Leadership, and Legacy” is available on its website, http://www.adamsjefferson.com, including directions for registering for the conference.