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History

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.

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  • Acton-Creighton Correspondence (John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton)
  • The American Commonwealth, 2 vols. (Viscount James Bryce)
  • The American Nation: Primary Sources (Bruce Frohnen)
  • American Political Writing During the Founding Era: 1760-1805, 2 vols. (Charles S. Hyneman)
  • The American Republic: Primary Sources (Bruce Frohnen)
  • America’s Second Crusade (William Henry Chamberlin)
  • L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution (7th ed. 1866) (Alexis de Tocqueville)
  • Ancient Law (Sir Henry Sumner Maine)
  • Anti-Slavery Tracts. First Series, Nos. 1-20 (1855-56) (David M. Hart)
  • Anti-Slavery Tracts. Second Series, nos. 1-25 (1860-62) (David M. Hart)
  • An Appeal to Impartial Posterity, by Citizenness Roland (Jeanne Marie Roland de la Platière)
  • An Arrow against all Tyrants (Richard Overton)
  • Autobiography (Edward Gibbon)
  • The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamesh (Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge)
  • BOLL 11: W.G. Sumner, “The Conquest of the United States by Spain” (1898) (William Graham Sumner)
  • BOLL 36: Lord Acton, “Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History” (1895) (John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton)
  • BOLL 46: David Hume, “The Progress of English Liberty” (1761) (David Hume)
  • BOLL 49: “The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen” (1789) (Georg Jellinek)
  • BOLL 74: John Millar, “Circumstances which tend to increase the power of the Sovereign” (1771) (John Millar)
  • The Case of Ireland being bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated (William Molyneux)
  • Catalogue of the Guillaumin Librairie (1847) (Gilbert-Urbain Guillaumin)
  • Cato’s Letters, or Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious, and Other Important Subjects (Thomas Gordon)
  • Ce qu'on appelle des idées nouvelles en 1848 (Amédée de Noé)
  • Des circonstances actuelles qui peuvent terminer la Révolution et des principes qui doivent fonder la république en France (Germaine de Staël)
  • The Claim of the American Loyalists (Joseph Galloway)
  • The Clarke Papers. Selections from the Papers of William Clarke, 4 vols. (Sir William Clarke)
  • The Collected Papers of Frederic William Maitland, 3 vols. (Frederic William Maitland)
  • A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett (William Leggett)
  • Colonial Origins of the American Constitution: A Documentary History (Donald S. Lutz)
  • The Complete Works of Venerable Bede, 8 vols. (Saint Bede)
  • Considerations of Behalf of the Colonists (James Otis)
  • Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution (LF ed.) (Germaine de Staël)
  • Considérations sur les principaux événemens de la Révolution française, 3 vols. (Germaine de Staël)
  • The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625-1660 (Samuel Rawson Gardiner)
  • Constitutionalism and the Separation of Powers (M.J.C. Vile)
  • Constitutionalism: Ancient and Modern (Charles Howard McIlwain)
  • The Continental System: An Economic Interpretation (Eli F. Heckscher)
  • The Corn Laws. Speech of R. Cobden (Richard Cobden)
  • Correspondence and Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834-1859, 2 vols. (1872) (Nassau William Senior)
  • The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay, 4 vols. (John Jay)
  • The Crisis: A British Defense of American Rights, 1775–1776 (Neil L. York)
  • The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century (Hugh Trevor-Roper)
  • Critical and Historical Essays contributed to the Edinburgh Review, 3 vols. (Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay)
  • Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy 3 vols. (Louis Wolowski)
  • Daniel Webster on the Draft: Text of a Speech delivered in Congress, December 9, 1814 (Daniel Webster)
  • David Hume: Prophet of the Counter-revolution (Laurence L. Bongie)
  • The Debates in the Several State Conventions 5 vols (Jonathan Elliot)
  • The Declaration of Independence: A Study on the History of Political Ideas (Carl Lotus Becker)
  • The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens (Georg Jellinek)
  • The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris, 2 vols. (Gouverneur Morris)
  • The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris, vol. 1 (Gouverneur Morris)
  • The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris, vol. 2 (Gouverneur Morris)
  • A Discourse of Standing Armies (1722) (Thomas Gordon)
  • A Discourse on the Love of Our Country (Richard Price)
  • Dissertations on Early Law and Custom (Sir Henry Sumner Maine)
  • Early Economic Thought in Spain, 1177-1740 (Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson)
  • The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation (and Lives of Saints and Bishops) (Saint Bede)
  • The Economic Consequences of the Peace (John Maynard Keynes)
  • Empire and Nation: Letters from a Farmer (John Dickinson)
  • England, Ireland, and America (Richard Cobden)
  • English Works of Thomas Hobbes, 11 vols. (Thomas Hobbes)
  • Die Entwicklung des gutsherrlich-bäuerlichen Verhältnisses in Galizien (1772-1848) (Ludwig von Mises)
  • An Essay on the History of Civil Society (Adam Ferguson)
  • Essays Moral, Political, Literary (LF ed.) (David Hume)
  • Exploring the Bounds of Liberty: Political Writings of Colonial British America from the Glorious Revolution to the American Revolution (Jack P. Greene)
  • The Formation and Progress of the Tiers État, or Third Estate in France 2 vols (Augustin Thierry)
  • Four Tracts on Political and Commercial Subjects (Josiah Tucker)
  • The French Revolution, 3 vols (Hippolyte Taine)
  • Friends of the Constitution: Writings of the “Other” Federalists, 1787-1788 (Colleen A. Sheehan)
  • General History of Civilization in Europe (François Guizot)
  • George Washington: A Collection (George Washington)
  • The Goodriches: An American Family (Pierre F. Goodrich)
  • The Heimskringla: A History of the Norse Kings, 3 vols. (Snorre Sturlason)
  • An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution (Mary Wollstonecraft)
  • Historical and Political Essays (William Edward Hartpole Lecky)
  • The Historical Essays and Narratives of the Merovingian Era (Augustin Thierry)
  • Historical Essays and Studies (John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton)
  • A Historical Sketch of Liberty and Equality LF ed.) (Frederic William Maitland)
  • An Historical View of the English Government (John Millar)
  • The Historical, Political, and Diplomatic Writings, 4 vols. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
  • The History, 4 vols. (Herodotus)
  • A History of American Currency (William Graham Sumner)
  • The History of British India, 6 vols. (1826) (James Mill)
  • A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, 8 vols. (William Edward Hartpole Lecky)
  • The History of England, 6 vols. (David Hume)
  • The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I, 2 vols. (Frederic William Maitland)
  • History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne, 2 vols. (William Edward Hartpole Lecky)
  • The History of Freedom and Other Essays (John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton)
  • A History of Political Economy (John Kells Ingram)
  • The History of Rome by Titus Livius, in 6 vols. (Titus Livius (Livy))
  • The History of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, 2 vols. (Thomas Clarkson)
  • The History of the American Revolution, 2 vols. (David Ramsay)
  • History of the Conquest of England by the Normans 2 vols. (Augustin Thierry)
  • The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 12 vols. (Edward Gibbon)
  • History of the Insurrection in the Four Western Counties of Pennsylvania (William Findley)
  • The History of the Origins of Representative Government in Europe (François Guizot)
  • History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe, 2 vols. (William Edward Hartpole Lecky)
  • History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution 2 vols (Mercy Otis Warren)
  • The Holy Roman Empire (Viscount James Bryce)
  • The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with Jacques Barzun (Jacques Barzun)
  • The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with Max Hartwell (Ronald Max Hartwell)
  • The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with Harry V. Jaffa (Harry Victor Jaffa)
  • The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with Leonard Liggio (Leonard P. Liggio)
  • An Introduction to the History of the Principal Kingdoms and States of Europe (1682, 2013) (Samuel von Pufendorf)
  • Ireland: Social, Political, and Religious, 2 vols. (1839) (Gustave de Beaumont)
  • L’Irlande sociale, politique, réligieuse, 2 vols (Gustave de Beaumont)
  • Judgments on History and Historians (Jacob Burckhardt)
  • The Lamp of Experience (Trevor Colbourn)
  • Lectures on Modern History (John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton)
  • Lectures on the Early History of Institutions (Sir Henry Sumner Maine)
  • Lectures on the French Revolution (1910 ed.) (John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton)
  • Lectures on the French Revolution (LF ed.) (John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton)
  • Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion (2nd ed. 1919) (Albert Venn Dicey)
  • Letters of Lord Acton to Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone (John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton)
  • Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
  • Liberty and American Experience in the Eighteenth Century (David Womersely)
  • Liberty and Order: The First American Party Struggle (Lance Banning)
  • David M. Hart, “Classical Liberalism and the Problem of Class” (Nov. 2016) (David M. Hart)
  • Liberty Matters: Deirdre McCloskey and Economists’ Ideas about Ideas (July, 2014) (Donald J. Boudreaux)
  • Liberty Matters: On the Spread of Classical Liberal Ideas (March, 2015) (David M. Hart)
  • The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: From 1817-1882 (Frederick Douglass)
  • Life of Adam Smith (John Rae)
  • The Life of George Washington (John Marshall)
  • The Life of Richard Cobden (John Morley)
  • The Lives of the Twelve Caesars (Suetonius Tranquillus)
  • The Making of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (James T. Schleifer)
  • The Manchester School of Economics (William Dyer Grampp)
  • The Miscellaneous Works (Sir James Mackintosh)
  • The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay, in 2 vols. (Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay)
  • Nation, State, and Economy: Contributions to the Politics and History of Our Time (Ludwig von Mises)
  • New Individualist Review (Milton Friedman)
  • Notes and Recollections with The Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics (2013) (Ludwig von Mises)
  • The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856) (Alexis de Tocqueville)
  • Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War (Ludwig von Mises)
  • The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks (John Millar)
  • The Origins of Contemporary France (Hippolyte Taine)
  • Outlines of an historical view of the progress of the human mind (Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet)
  • The Perfectibility of Man (John Passmore)
  • Plutarch’s Lives (Dryden trans.) (Plutarch)
  • Plutarch’s Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North in Ten Volumes (Plutarch)
  • Poor Law Commissioners’ Report of 1834 (Nassau William Senior)
  • 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 Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville (1896) (Alexis de Tocqueville)
  • The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, 3vols. (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)
  • Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises, 3 vols (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)
  • Sketches of the History of Man, 3 vols. (Henry Home, Lord Kames)
  • A Source Book for Mediaeval History. Selected Documents (Edgar Holmes McNeal)
  • The Story of Burnt Njal (Rasmus B. Anderson)
  • Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2 vols. (Viscount James Bryce)
  • Collected Political Writings of James Otis (James Otis)
  • Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution (Ludwig von Mises)
  • Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution (LF ed.) (Ludwig von Mises)
  • Timeline of the American Founding (David M. Hart)
  • The Tudor Translations: Machiavelli (Henry Cust)
  • The Works of Sallust (1744) (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
  • The Works of Tacitus, 4 vols. (1737) (Publius Cornelius Tacitus)
  • The Works of Voltaire. A Contemporary Version, in 21 vols. (Voltaire)
  • The Works of William Robertson in Eight Volumes (1840) (William Robertson)
  • The Writings of George Washington, 14 vols. (Worthington Chauncey Ford)

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