Political Science
Signs of Change
In the 1880s William Morris, the artist and poet famously associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, left the Liberal Party and threw him…
Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, and were ratified on December 15, 1791.
Vices are not Crimes
In Vices are not Crimes, Lysander Spooner presents a thought-provoking examination of the relationship between individual liberty and govern…
Thomas Hobbes
This work is a look at the life and ideas of Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher of the seventeenth century. The most important ideas are fo…
The Influence of Monarchs
Frederick Adams Woods presents compelling evidence to support the great man theory of history and his own category scientific inquiry known …
John Hancock
This book sheds light on one of the greatest men in the American history, an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Pa…
Commentaries on the Laws of England
The Commentaries on the Laws of England by Sir William Blackstone, are a prominent and authoritative 18th century dissertation on the common…
Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty
Frederick Adams Woods examined the biographical records and family trees of the great dynasties of Europe, judging and comparing their moral…
Anticipations of a World Peace
In the Fourth Year is a collection H.G. Wells assembled in the spring of 1918 from essays he had recently published discussing the problem o…
Vindication Of The Rights Of Men
Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) attacks aristocracy and advocates republicanism. It was published in response to …
The World's Best Orations
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of…
Madame de Staël
Madame Germaine de Staël (1766-1817) was the daughter of the Swiss banker and statesman, Jacques Necker. Her mother hosted a popular Pa…
Common Sense
In November 1774, Norfolk native Thomas Paine arrived in Philadelphia. He came under the recommendation of Benjamin Franklin, and indeed it…
A Vital Question
Despised by Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, What Is To Be Done? is a fascinating, sympathetic story of idealistic revolutionaries in mid-nineteenth…
Washington and the Riddle of Peace
As an observer at the WASHINGTON CONFERENCE FOR THE LIMITATION OF ARMAMENTS held in 1921 and attended by the victorious nations of The Great…
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius
In "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius", posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful…
The Citizen's Almanac
New citizens of the United States were given this pamphlet when they became citizens. The Citizen's Almanac contains information on the hist…
Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule
First written in Gandhi's native language Gujarati, this booklet advocates for Indian non-violent self-rule during the struggle for Indian i…
The English Restoration and Louis XIV
In this trim volume the British historian, Osmund Airy writes of the period between 1648 and 1679 when Cardinal Mazarin, having concluded th…
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness
It was Godwin, in his Enquiry concerning Political Justice (2 vols., 1793), who was the first to formulate the political and economical conc…