Banned Books
Many of the works in the Online Library of Liberty have been banned or censored at various times by governments, established churches, and pubic schools for their content. Among these are:
- a number of translations of the Bible
- the Koran
- the U.S. Constitution
Some famous authors whose works have been banned include (in alphabetical order):
- Sir Francis Bacon
- Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
- John Calvin
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet
- Confucius
- Dante
- Réné Descartes
- Desiderius Erasmus
- Galileo
- Edward Gibbon
- Thomas Hobbes
- Homer
- David Hume
- Immanuel Kant
- John Locke
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- John Stuart Mill
- John Milton
- Michel de Montaigne
- Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
- Thomas Paine
- Blaise Pascal
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- William Shakespeare
- Adam Smith
- Benedict de Spinoza
- Voltaire
This list has been compiled from the following sources:
- ALA Banned Books Week
- Google Explore Banned Books
- University of Pennsylvania The Online Books Page - Banned Books Online
- Wikipedia List of Banned Books
- Instances of Censorship throughout History
- Index of Prohibited Books 1557-1966 (Fordham University)
Reading Lists
- Addison and Smith: Freedom and Responsibility
- American Liberty in Political Documents before 1787
- An Introduction to the Major Writings of Ludwig von Mises
- Banned Books
- British and French Sources of American Constitutionalism
- Burlamaqui, Bayle: Freedom Tolerance, Natural Law
- Cato’s Letters: Liberty and Responsibility
- Cobden: Liberty and Peace
- Constant’s Principles of Politics
- Emerson on Anti-slavery
- Eric Mack, An Introduction to the Political Thought of John Locke
- Gibbon and the Rise of Christianity and Islam
- Homer’s Iliad: Liberty and Responsibility
- Hume, Smith, and Ferguson: Wealth, Commerce, and Corruption
- Hume: History of England
- James Tyrrell on Authority and Liberty
- Jefferson-Hamilton Debate
- Major Political Thinkers: Plato to Mill
- Mandeville: Vice, Virtue and Liberty
- Mill-Macaulay Debate on Government
- Milton: Liberty in his Prose and Poetry
- Old Testament and English Political Thought
- Political Sermons of the Founding Era
- Readings from the OLL Reader
- Rousseau and Hume: Contrasting Views of Liberty
- Shakespeare and Marlowe: Liberty in Four Plays
- Shakespeare: Liberty and Responsibility
- Socialist Tracts
- Sophocles and Aeschylus: Blood Justice and the Founding of Legal Order
- Tacitus: Liberty and Tyranny in the Annals
- The Ruling Class and the State: An Anthology
- Thomas Paine and American Liberty
- Thucydides: War, Empire, and Liberty