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Association of Core Texts and Courses, Plymouth MA, April 3-6 2008

An essential component of the OLL collection are the “great books” which the founder of Liberty Fund considered to have contributed most to our understanding of individual liberty. They include the works of 100 authors from ancient Sumeria through to the American Revolution such as: Hammurabi, Homer, Confucius, Sophocles, Plato, Cicero, Plutarch, St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer, Ersamus, Locke, Milton, Shakespeare, Grotius, Adam Smith, Kant, Hume, Burke, Goethe. [See a full list of the key authors here].

Works by these authors and hundreds of other classic texts are available free of charge to the public for educational purposes:

  • The most scholarly editions of the complete works of Adam Smith (OUP), David Ricardo (CUP), John Stuart Mill (UTP)
  • The complete works of the following Founding Fathers: Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison
  • 377 volumes on political theory, 292 on economics, 229 on history,155 on philosophy, 97 on the American Revolution & Constitution,
  • over 80 key political & legal documents chronicling the development of free societies in the west

The OLL also has hundreds of study aids such as biographies, bibliographies, timelines of key authors and intellectual debates, & essays on key political ideas & political theorists to aid students in understanding the texts.

Teachers can create their own annotated course reading lists with links to the texts they have selected from the OLL collection. [See the User Guide to Creating Reading Lists for more information.]

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American Society of 18th Century Studies, Portland OR, March 27-30, 2008

In March 2008 we will be attending the annual meeting of the American Society for 18th Century Studies in Portland, Oregon. The OLL and Liberty Fund have a strong interest in the 18th century as the following items indicate. We have significant holdings in the following areas:

Liberty Fund is particularly pleased to be able to offer online special collections of significant scholarly value. This includes the following works:

  • the Natural Law and Enlightenment Series - a 40 volume collection of the most significant works on natural law, moral and political philosophy, and social theory from the late 17th and 18th centuries by authors such as Grotius, John Millar, Francis Hutcheson, Burlamaqui, Lord Kames, Pierre, Bayle, Samuel Pufendorf, and George Turnbull.
  • The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith (7 vols.)
  • The Select Works of Edmund Burke and other Writings (5 vols.)
  • David Hume’s History of England (6 vols.)
  • The Works of Thomas Jefferson (12 vols.)
  • The Works of Alexander Hamilton (12 vols.)
  • The Complete Works of Montesquieu (4 vols.)
  • The Writings of Thomas Paine (4 vols.)
  • The Political Writings of Rousseau (2 vols.)
  • Shaftesbury, Characteristicks of Men, Manners, and Opinions (3 vols.)
  • Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (12 vols.)

See our flyer for the event in PDF (140 KB) or JPG - page 1 - page 2.

 

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