Featuring 113 primary source documents, The U.S. Constitution: A Reader was developed for teaching the core course on the U.S. Constitution at Hillsdale College. Divided into eleven sections with introductions by members of Hillsdale’s Politics Department faculty, readings cover the principles of the American founding; the framing and structure of the Constitution; the secession crisis and the Civil War; the Progressive rejection of the Constitution; and the building of the administrative state based on Progressive principles.

COMING IN APRIL 2012

Obama: The Dream and the Reality collects the National Review writings of one of today’s most provocative political commentators: Victor Davis Hanson. In pungent prose, Hanson skewers modern pieties with the eye of a realist who is deeply grounded in wide knowledge of human history—and human nature.

Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in classics and military history at the Hoover Institution, a professor of classics emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 and the Bradley Prize in 2008. Hanson has written or edited seventeen books, including The Western Way of War, The Wars of the Ancient Greeks, The Soul of Battle, Carnage and Culture, Mexifornia: A State of Becoming, and his new novel, The End of Sparta. The National Review Online columnist lives on a forty-acre tree-and-vine farm near Selma, California, where he was born in 1953.

Why Thrift Matters outlines twenty well-researched propositions for why thrift matters for families, neighborhoods, the economy, and the planet. It also includes a list of ways that readers can get involved in the new “thrift movement.” This report, issued by the Institute for American Values, presents the rationale for the growing thrift movement, publishes new research findings on American thrift, and examines innovative ideas from grassroots leaders.

COMING IN JUNE 2012

How would a historical narrative read if the author began with the first principles that truth exists and the Incarnation happened? The long-awaited, sixth and final volume to the late Warren Carroll’s highly regarded history of Christendom covers the years 1815 through 2005. This series is the only in-print, comprehensive narration of Western history written from an orthodox Catholic perspective.

Warren Carroll (1932–2011) was founder of Christendom College, serving as president from 1977–85, and as chairman of the Department of History from 1985–2002. Carroll earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Columbia Uni­versity. The author of numerous books, he has won a well-deserved reputation as one of the foremost Catholic historians of our time. Anne Carroll is the widow of Warren and a well-respected author in her own right. Her books include Christ the King, Lord of History and Christ and the Americas. She is also the founder of Seton Home Study School and Seton School in Manassas, Virginia.

This leatherette-bound edition of the Washington Constitution begins with a foreword by Chief Justice Barbara Madsen of the Washington State Supreme Court. Madsen explains the importance of the state constitution and why its protections of individual rights and liberty are more important today than ever before. Also included are an introduction and history of the document and the delegates who authored it, as well as the full text of the United States Constitution.

The Freedom Foundation seeks to promote individual liberty and accountable government. In addition to constitutional law, the Freedom Foundation focuses on budget and taxes, business and labor, education, election integrity, property rights, and first principles. The Freedom Foundation envisions a day when opportunity, responsible self-governance, and free markets flourish in Washington because its citizens understand and cherish the principles from which they were derived.

Originally published as a doctoral dissertation, Daniel A. Cronin’s survey of moral theology on the topic of ordinary and extraordinary means remains the standard reference work on this critically important distinction for end-of-life decision-making. Cronin examines the major authors from the Catholic historical tradition on this important distinction, showing how the difference between “ordinary” and “extraordinary” has developed with the progress of medical science. Continuously cited since its first publication, this revised edition brings the classic text back into print.

Just Released!

Collected here for the first time is a history of images of Oman, one of the most developed and stable countries in the Arab world and among the earliest adherents to Islam. A sultanate, the country sits along the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. From early days of world trade through the port of Muscat to contemporary engagement with international diplomacy and the West, Oman has always evoked beauty and mystery in equal measure. This art-house quality volume reveals an intimate picture of the country as its contours emerged over the last 80 years in the eyes of the West, as captured in images by English explorer Wilfred Thesiger in the 1940s and ‘50s, British Army major Charles Butt in the 1960s, and award-winning American documentary photographer Edward Grazda in the first decade of this new century.

Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger (1910-2003) was a British explorer and travel writer born in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. Thesiger is best known for two travel books: Arabian Sands (1959), which recounts his travels in the Empty Quarter of Arabia between 1945 and 1950 and describes the vanishing way of life of the Bedouins. The Marsh Arabs (1964) is an account of the Madan, the indigenous people of the marshlands of southern Iraq. Thesiger took many photographs during his travels and donated his vast collection of 23,000 negatives to the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.

Charles Butt served as a Major in the Sultan’s Armed Forces from 1966-1978. He was initially Station Staff Officer administering 1,500 men. He then commanded the desert Advanced Base supporting operation forces on the hills and borders, before being transferred to the Gendarmerie, where he acted as Squadron Commander. He was promoted to Force Welfare Officer and subsequently became Deputy Joint Services Welfare Officer, Ministry of Defence. He was a keen amateur photographer (and member of the Royal Photographic Society) and took over 10,000 cover photographs while living and serving in the Middle East.  These photos now form part of The Charles Butt Photographic Collection at the Middle East Center at St. Anthony’s College.

Edward Grazda studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design and has shot extensively throughout Latin America and Asia. Grazda’s work has been collected by New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the San Francisco Museum of Art, among others. His images have also been published in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Double Take, Granta, and other prominent magazines. Grazda teaches photography at Harvard University and the International Center of Photography in New York. He has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he has been a fellow at MacDowell Colony and the recipient of many awards.

Raina Sacks Blankenhorn is the executive vice president of the Institute for American Values and the founder of the Institute’s Center for Global Engagement, where she serves as an editor of IjtihadReason.org, an online journal published in Arabic and English. Over the past decade she has developed and co-sponsored academic conferences and cultural projects with colleagues in both the United States and the Middle East. Blankenhorn, a published photographer, received her B.A. in American history from Harvard University. She lives with her husband and their three children in New York City.

What They Are Saying:

“Three Views of Oman is a great example of the dialogue of cultures. Rather than repeating the Orientalist approach that has weakened so many Western studies of Arabic societies, this book builds a new bridge between two civilizations with different histories but shared values.” — Radwan Ziadeh, George Washington University

“This album illustrates that photography does more than capture moments of physical reality on paper. It is a medium between the contemplator and our widely strange and unknown world. Through the camera eye a window stays open, transferring moments from the past into the future, letting us participate again and again in something that has been, in a sense, lost. Three Views of Oman is a wonderful experience.” — Michael R.N. Jansen, Aachen University