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A nineteenth-century narrative of Pizarro, the Inca Empire, conquest, conflict, and empire.

A Puritan classic on pastoral duty, preaching, discipline, conscience, and care of souls.

Dewey’s compact argument for active learning, democracy, experience, and school reform.

A landmark argument for women’s equality, legal reform, liberty, education, and marriage rights.

Locke’s classic argument for religious toleration, civil government, conscience, churches, and liberty.

Hume’s major work on ideas, causation, belief, personal identity, passion, morals, and human understanding.

Locke’s foundational study of ideas, knowledge, experience, language, identity, and the limits of understanding.

Milton’s famous prose defense of unlicensed printing, free inquiry, truth, conscience, and public debate.

Mill’s political treatise on representation, liberty, participation, institutions, voting, and civic character.

A philosophical dialogue on design, skepticism, religious belief, evidence, analogy, and natural theology.

Faraday’s experimental papers on electricity, induction, electrochemistry, magnetism, fields, and scientific method.

A major economic reform text on land, rent, inequality, wages, poverty, and the single tax.

Locke’s practical educational treatise on habit, character, discipline, health, reason, and formation.

Keynes’s influential critique of the Versailles settlement, reparations, Europe’s economy, and postwar instability.

A nineteenth-century military history of battles that shaped empire, politics, Europe, and world history.

A comparative study of myth, ritual, magic, kingship, fertility, sacrifice, and religion.

Boswell’s landmark biography of Samuel Johnson, conversation, literary London, character, wit, and memory.

Bacon’s utopian fiction of Salomon’s House, knowledge, experiment, science, travel, and social order.

A brief spiritual classic on prayer, simplicity, inner attention to God, and everyday life.

William James’s landmark psychology text on consciousness, habit, attention, emotion, will, and self.

A Puritan devotional classic on heavenly rest, meditation, repentance, hope, and disciplined Christian life.

Veblen’s sharp analysis of conspicuous consumption, status, leisure, wealth, taste, and institutions.

A classic study of conversion, mysticism, saintliness, melancholy, pragmatism, and individual religious life.

A political Gothic novel of pursuit, secrecy, class power, surveillance, and the machinery of justice.