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Louis Filler (May 2, 1911 – December 22, 1998), a Philadelphia-reared, Columbia-trained writer on muckraking and abolitionism from 1939 to 1998, taught American civilization at Antioch College from 1946 to 1976. His anthologies and essays on Americans who influence public perception and values, as journalists, essayists, writers of fiction, editors, public speakers, poets, and politicians, examine the process of social forgetting and affirm the value of figures who later became obscure and the continued value of their work.

Paine and Emerson, Bellamy and George, Veblen and Upton Sinclair . . . [and] Melville [who] wrote about the indignities suffered by able seamen . . . coped with their own times. Can we cope with ours [by means of] stories and essays . . . live readers to appreciate live prose . . .an informed critical taste . . . knowledge, data, and a memory for past experience . . . [and] is there a better phrase for this than "social significance"? ("The Question of Social Significance," Union Review 1:1:66-71, 1962)

Emerson and Thoreau were radicals, and were so perceived in their own time. ("Wendell Phillips and the Necessity for Radicalism," Introduction to Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom, 1965, p. ix)