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The OLL blog explores the fascinating, vital, and often surprising texts and people that fill our library. Come talk in our library!

Self-Help with Smiles

By: Caroline Breashears

While self-help books have been around for millennia, the popularity of the genre owes a great deal to Samuel Smiles's Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct. 
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Reading is, and should always be, a pleasure

By: Carlos Alejandro Noyola Contreras

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Marlowe, Goethe, and the Faust Legend

By: Gary McGath

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Liberty Matters

The OLL brings people together to debate and discuss important texts and big ideas about liberty.

The Legacy of David Boaz

By: Andy Craig, Ilya Somin, Tarnell S. Brown, Aaron Powell, and Jonathan Blanks

David Boaz (August 29, 1953–June 7, 2024) was one of the most influential libertarians of the 20th century, and a driving force behind The Cato Institute for many decades.
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Jefferson in Time: Perspectives through His Eyes

By: Cara Rogers Stevens, Todd Estes, Christine McDonald, and Hans Eicholz

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Early Spanish Empire in North America

By: Paul Schwennesen, Gabriela Calderon de Burgos, and Henry T. Edmondson III

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Biography

Meet the players in the history of liberty.

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Quotes

Explore lively quotations on questions of liberty and power.