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User Created Reading Lists
These Reading Lists have been created by users of the OLL website for a variety of purposes. Some have been created by professors and teachers for use in their classes and courses. Others are lists of someone’s favorite books. What they have in common is that users can create their own customized reading lists of material which is on the OLL website and make these lists publicly available on the OLL website for their students or friends to access and use.
Economics
Favorites
| list name | audience |
|---|---|
| The Director’s Favourites | General Interest |
History
| list name | audience |
|---|---|
| Acton and the History of Liberty | College (Undergraduate) |
| B. Dekker’s reading list | College (Graduate) |
| Essaying Liberty in Hume’s History of England in the Reigns of James I and Charles I | Liberty Fund Colloquium |
| James Madison Reading List | Liberty Fund Colloquium |
| Mark Alcorn’s reading list | College (Undergraduate) |
| May 8th-11th Conference Boston MA. | College (Graduate) |
| The Affirmation of Reason | General Interest |
| The American Revolution and Early Republic | College (Graduate) |
Interdisciplinary
| list name | audience |
|---|---|
| Essays by Murray N. Rothbard | General Interest |
| Individual Freedom—In what Does It Reside? | General Interest |
| Jennifer Overfield’s reading list | College (Graduate) |
| Liberty and Responsibility in Plutarch and Shakespeare | Liberty Fund Colloquium |
| Liberty, Responsibility, and Prudence in The Prince, King Lear, and Measure for Measure | Liberty Fund Colloquium |
| The Great Books Reading Group | General Interest |
Law
| list name | audience |
|---|---|
| British and French Sources of American Constitutionalism | Liberty Fund Colloquium |
| Introduction to the American Constitution | General Interest |
| James Wilson, the Law of Nature, and the Protection of Liberty | Liberty Fund Colloquium |
| Pocket Guide to Political and Civic Rights, 1215-1830 | General Interest |
Literature
| list name | audience |
|---|---|
| Liberty and Sovereignty in Four Shakespeare Plays | Liberty Fund Colloquium |
| Liberty and the Ideals of Greek Paideia | General Interest |
Philosophy
| list name | audience |
|---|---|
| David Hume’s Moral Psychology: Taste and Sentiment | College (Graduate) |
| Ethics reading list (Dr. Bowser) | College (Undergraduate) |
| gyakusetsu’s reading list | General Interest |
| Ian Dunois’s Natural Law | College (Undergraduate) |
| Locke on Toleration: Locke’s A Letter Concerning Toleration | General Interest |
| Mitchell G. Moffat, M.D.’s reading list | College (Graduate) |
| Origins of Thought | General Interest |
Political Theory
Religion
| list name | audience |
|---|---|
| Get right Church | General Interest |
| Mill and Tocqueville on Liberty and Religion in a Democratic Age | Liberty Fund Colloquium |
| The Rise of Christianity and Islam in Gibbon’s Decline and Fall | Liberty Fund Colloquium |
War and Peace
| list name | audience |
|---|---|
| Liberty and Peace in the Life and Works of Richard Cobden | Liberty Fund Colloquium |
| Thucydides on Empire, War, Democracy, and Liberty | Liberty Fund Colloquium |
