History

About this Collection

Whether it is David Hume’s eighteenth-century account of English history stretching from Julius Caesar to the Glorious Revolution or Edmund Burke’s analysis of the American and French Revolutions as he watched them unfold, our history collection reflects on the events of history and the ways we discuss those events over time.

Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)	Thomas Babbington Macaulay (1800-1859)	Henry Sumner Maine (1822-1888)

See also the extracts, chapters, and introductions in the History section of the Ideas page.

Members:

• The Present Age (Robert A. Nisbet)
• The Present State of Germany (Samuel von Pufendorf)
• Kant’s Principles of Politics, including his essay on Perpetual Peace (Immanuel Kant)
• The Progress of English Liberty (David Hume)
• The Prose Works of John Milton, vol. 2 (Rufus Wilmot Griswold)
• The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville (1896) (Alexis de Tocqueville)
• The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, 3vols. (Max Farrand)
• The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, vol. 1 (Max Farrand)
• The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, vol. 2 (Max Farrand)
• The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, vol. 3 (Max Farrand)
• Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Republicks (Edward Wortley Montagu)
• Report made to the Chamber of Deputies on the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies (1840) (Alexis de Tocqueville)
• The Roots of Liberty: Magna Carta and the Anglo-American Tradition of Rule of Law (John Phillip Reid)
• The Ruins: or a Survery of the Revolutions of Empires (Constantin-François Chasseboeuf, Marquis de Volney)
• Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History, 3 vols. (Committee of the Association of American Law Schools)
• Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History, vol. 1 (John Maxcy Zane)
• Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History, vol. 2 (Sir William Searle Holdsworth)
• Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History, vol. 3 (Viscount James Bryce)
• Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises, 3 vols (Ludwig von Mises)
• Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises, vol. 1: Monetary and Economic Problems Before, During, and After the Great War (Richard Ebeling)
• Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises, vol. 2: Between the Two World Wars: Monetary Disorder, Interventionism, Socialism, and the Great Depression (Ludwig von Mises)
• Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises, vol. 3: The Political Economy of International Reform and Reconstruction (Ludwig von Mises)
• Selections from the Correspondence of the First Lord Acton, Vol. I (Reginald Vere Laurence)
• Shakespeare’s Plutarch, 2 vols. (Sir Thomas North)
• Shakespeare’s Plutarch, Vol. I (containing the main sources of Julius Caesar) (Sir Thomas North)