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Leslie Butler is an American intellectual and cultural historian, with an emphasis on the nineteenth century. She joined the faculty at Dartmouth in 2003 and since then she has also taught at University College, London and Occidental College, where she was the 2020-21 Ray Allen Billington Visiting Professor. She is the author of Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform and Consistent Democracy: The "Woman Question" and Self-Government in Nineteenth Century America (Oxford, forthcoming 2023). Her other scholarship includes articles and contributions to the Cambridge History of America and the World and the Oxford Illustrated History of the United States. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Huntington Library, the American Antiquarian Society, and Massachusetts Historical Society.
Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007).
Consistent Democracy: The "Woman Question" and Self-Government in Nineteenth Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2023).
"Ideas in American History," Nicholas Guyatt, ed., Oxford Illustrated History of the United States of America (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2023).
"The Liberal North Atlantic," The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 2, 1812-1900 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021).
"The 'Woman Question' in the Age of Democracy: From Movement History to Problem History," in Joel Isaac, James T. Kloppenberg, Michael O'Brien, and Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, eds., The Worlds of American Intellectual History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017).
Travel Writers and the Social Scientific Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America (book-length project)