Leslie Butler

Selected Publications

• Consistent Democracy: The "Woman Question" and Self-Government in Nineteenth Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023).

  Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007).

• "Ideas in American History," Nicholas Guyatt, ed., Oxford Illustrated History of the United States of America (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2024).

• "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).

• "A 'Badge of Advanced Liberalism': The Place of Woman Suffrage in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Political Thought," in Andrew Preston and Doug Rossinow, eds., America's World: The Transnational Circuitry of U.S. History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).

• "Lincoln as the Great Educator: Opinion and Educative Liberalism in the Civil War Era," in Don Doyle, Marcus Gräser, and Jörg Nagler, eds., The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War (Palgrave Macmillan; 2016).

  "'Encountering the Smashing Projectile': William James on John Stuart Mill and the Woman Question," in Martin Halliwell and Joel Rasmussen, editors, William James and the Transatlantic Conversation: Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Philosophy of Religion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).

• "From the History of Ideas to Ideas in History," Modern Intellectual History 9.1 (2012), 157-169.

  "Victorianism," in Joan Shelley Rubin and Scott E. Casper, eds., Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).

• David Armitage, Thomas Bender, Leslie Butler, Don H. Doyle, Susan-Mary Grant, Charles S. Maier, Jörg Nagler, Paul Quigley, and Jay Sexton, "Nationalism and Internationalism during the Civil War Era: An Interchange," Journal of American History 98.2 (2011), 455-489

• "Historicizing American Travel, at Home and Abroad," Modern Intellectual History (April 2011), 1-15.

• "Reconstructions in Intellectual and Cultural Life," in Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum United State s, Thomas J. Brown, ed., (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).

• "Liberal Victorians and Foreign Policy in the Age of Empire," in The Problem of Evil: Race, Slavery, and the Ambiguities of Reform , S. Mintz and J. Stauffer (eds.) (2006).

• "Investigating the 'Great American Mystery': Theory and Style in Henry Adams' Political Reform Moment," in Henry Adams and the Need to Know , W. Decker (ed.), (2005) 80-103.