Faculty Books

Tried & True: A Primer on Sound Pedagogy offers practical advice to new and existing teachers through fourteen succinct, easy-to-read chapters. Dr. Coupland connects high-level topics like the school’s mission with practical advice to inform a teacher's lessons, assessments, classroom...

From the Foreword: The U.S. Constitution: A Reader is made up of original source documents that bear upon the founding of the American republic, the making of its Constitution, and the struggle to preserve that document and govern under it...

A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian and visiting professor at Hillsdale College, Victor Davis Hanson. World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on...

Americans often use the words progressive, liberal, and radical more or less interchangeably without understanding their place in American history. Kevin Slack describes the distinct aims of the movements they represent and weighs their consequences for the American republic. Each...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Case for Trump explains the decline and fall of the once cherished idea of American citizenship. Human history is full of the stories of peasants, subjects, and tribes. Yet the concept of...

Dr. Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, reveals the integral unity of the Declaration and the Constitution, and warns us of the threat they are under from the modern Progressive movement. Today the integrity and unity of the Declaration of...

From the Preface: Nevertheless, as we have noted, there remains an intensely practical application of studying the American Heritage. If liberal education is to survive, if its priceless effort of turning hearts and minds toward the good and the true...

No statesman shaped the twentieth century more than Winston Churchill. To know Churchill is to understand the combinations of boldness and caution, assertiveness and humility, that define statesmanship at its best. With fresh perspective and insights based on decades of...

This book provides a complete overview of the American Founders' political theory, covering natural rights, natural law, state of nature, social compact, consent, and the policy implications of these ideas. It is a response to the current scholarly consensus, which...

One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns...

Imprimis: A 50th Anniversary Collection Imprimis is a national speech digest published ten times a year by Hillsdale College. It promotes the principles of individual rights, limited government, free market economics, civic morality, and strong national defense. Launched in 1972...

"In the United States you can elect any president you want, but a small group of people you've never heard of still run everything -- year after year, administration after administration. That's not democracy. It's oligarchy, and Mark Moyar explains...

Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America is written by Hillsdale College faculty member, Thomas G. West. This controversial, convincing, and highly original book is important reading for everyone concerned about the origins, present,...

From the Preface: Many twenty-first-century students may be tempted to ask about the utility of an immersion in documents penned by men long dead and gone. The answer remains disarmingly simple. The highest things, the most noble ideals—the well-ordered soul,...

VOLUME ONE: AN INVITATION TO THE GREAT AMERICAN STORYFrom 1492 to 1877 The American story begins before there was an America at all, except in the imagination of peoples around the world, living in poverty and yearning for freedom. From...

More than 2500 years ago a confederation of small Greek city-states defeated the invading armies of Persia, the most powerful empire in the world. In this meticulously researched study, historian and Hillsdale College professor Paul Rahe argues that Sparta was...

VOLUME TWO: THE MAKING OF MODERN AMERICA From 1877 to 2020 The Founders of the American nation would have had trouble recognizing the America that emerged after the Civil War. By century’s end we had rapidly evolved into the world’s...

In this “gripping account of catastrophic defeat” (Barry Strauss), a New York Times–bestselling historian charts how and why some societies chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time. War can settle...