#  Peter Wirzbicki 

Visiting Scholar, Transcendentalism Initiative

 

 

 



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 email <wirzbicki@princeton.edu> 

 



 

Peter Wirzbicki is Associate Professor of American History at Princeton University. His first book, *Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists against Slavery*, examines the intellectual and personal relationships between radical abolitionism and New England Transcendentalism.

His current research explores the intellectual history of Reconstruction, with a focus on how Americans understood democracy, rights, sovereignty, and suffrage in the years following the Civil War.



 

 

 





 

 

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