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Although it is not as famous as British Idealism, there was also American Hegelianism. There were the Ohio Hegelians Peter Kaufmann (1800-1869), August Willich (1810-1878), John Bernhard Stallo (1823-1900), and Moncure Daniel Conway (1832-1907) as well as the St Louis Hegelians Henry Conrad Brokmeyer (1828-1906), William Torrey Harris (1835-1909), Thomas Davidson (1840-1900), and Denton Snider (1841-1925). While there were many similarities and connections between these persons and the American Transcendentalists, the Hegelians believed that the Transcendentalists focused attention unduly on the individual and so missed the importance of society. Although their views are different enough that they can't be considered a school, these Hegelians attempted to interpret America's history in light of Hegel's philosophy, seeing the Civil War, for example, in light of the lord/bondsman section of the Phenomenology of Spirit. Also Josiah Royce (1855-1916), an idealist who taught at Harvard University for many years.