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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.
- Jennifer Overfield’s reading list [College (Graduate)]
Economics
- Liberty and Responsibility in Adam Smith [College (Graduate)]
- Lopez — Public Choice Reading List [College (Graduate)]
- Ian Dunois’ Free Market foundations [College (Undergraduate)]
Favorites
- The Director’s Favourites [General Interest]
History
- Essaying Liberty in Hume’s History of England in the Reigns of James I and Charles I [Liberty Fund Colloquium]
- The American Revolution and Early Republic [College (Graduate)]
- B. Dekker’s reading list [College (Graduate)]
- Acton and the History of Liberty [College (Undergraduate)]
Interdisciplinary
- The Great Books Reading Group [General Interest]
Law
- British and French Sources of American Constitutionalism [Liberty Fund Colloquium]
- Introduction to the American Constitution [General Interest]
Literature
- Liberty and Responsibility and Prudence in The Prince, King Lear, and Measure for Measure [Liberty Fund Colloquium]
- Liberty and the Ideals of Greek Paideia [General Interest]
- Liberty and Sovereignty in Four Shakespeare Plays [Liberty Fund Colloquium]
Philosophy
- gyakusetsu’s reading list [General Interest]
- Mitchell G. Moffat, M.D.’s reading list [College (Graduate)]
- Ian Dunois’s Natural Law [College (Undergraduate)]
- David Hume’s Moral Psychology: Taste and Sentiment [College (Graduate)]
Political Theory
- Contrasting Views of Liberty in Hume and Rousseau [Liberty Fund Colloquium]
- Liberty and Responsibilty in the Thought of Benjamin Constant [Liberty Fund Colloquium]
- Classics in the History of Political Thought [College (Undergraduate)]
- Readings on Self-Government and Liberty [College (Graduate)]
- Property Rights: An Overview [General Interest]
- Ancient Political Philosophy [College (Undergraduate)]
- Santiago Dussan Laverde’s reading list [College (Undergraduate)]
- An Introduction to the Political Thought of John Locke [General Interest]
- The Political Thought of John Milton [College (Undergraduate)]
- Classics in the History of Political Thought [College (Undergraduate)]
Religion
- 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
- Thucydides on Empire, War, Democracy, and Liberty [Liberty Fund Colloquium]
- Liberty and Peace in the Life and Works of Richard Cobden [Liberty Fund Colloquium]
