"You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain't no matter." So begins, in characteristic fashion, one of the greatest American novels. Narrated by a poor,...

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...

Level 3 Teacher Guide, Part 2 – Pilot Edition The Level Three Teacher Guide, Part 2, is the go-to guide for guidance, instruction, and planning for teachers in grades 3 and above using the Literacy Essentials curriculum. The Part 2 volume contains weeks...

First Grade Teacher Guide, Semester 2 - Pilot Edition The First Grade Teacher Guide, Semester 2, is the go-to guide for guidance, instruction, and planning for first-grade teachers using the Literacy Essentials curriculum. It includes overviews for the year, semester, and week,...

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...

Hamlet is Shakespeare’s most popular, and most puzzling, play. It follows the form of a “revenge tragedy,” in which the hero, Hamlet, seeks vengeance against his father’s murderer, his uncle Claudius, now the king of Denmark. Much of its fascination, however,...

Putting romance onstage, The Tempest gives us a magician, Prospero, a former duke of Milan who was displaced by his treacherous brother, Antonio. Prospero is exiled on an island, where his only companions are his daughter, Miranda, the spirit Ariel, and the...

As a divided nation plunges into the deepest crisis in its history, Abraham Lincoln boards a train for Washington and his inauguration—an inauguration Southerners have vowed to prevent. Lincoln on the Verge charts these pivotal thirteen days of travel, as...

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...

The official, one-volume edition, authorized by Solzhenitsyn “BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20thCENTURY”—Time An undisputed masterpiece of world literature, The Gulag Archipelago renders the four decades of terror and oppression into human terms. Drawing on his own experience before, during...

This revised and enlarged edition of the leading anthology provides the essential writings of Marx and Engels--those works necessary for an introduction to Marxist thought and ideology.

A “powerful revisionist history” (Times UK) illuminating the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution In The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and introduced communism to the...

"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...

 “A provocative, revisionist take on the Second World War” (Financial Times) by a prize-winning historian We remember World War II as a struggle between good and evil, with Hitler propelling events and the Allied powers saving the day. But Hitler’s...

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,...

In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of Western literature. In this intensely personal...

John Milton’s Paradise Lost, an epic poem on the clash between God and his fallen angel, Satan, is a profound meditation on fate, free will, and divinity, and one of the most beautiful works in world literature. Extracted from the...