Subject: History
By Warren H. Carroll 330 pages | ISBN 978-0-931888-05-2
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A captivating account that narrates, month by month, the events of 1917: Red Banners, White Mantle is popular Catholic history at its finest. The drama of the Great War and the Russian Revolution are juxtaposed with the spiritual dimension of the age: the diabolism of Rasputin, the Apparition of the Virgin at Fatima, the malignancy of Lenin, the saintly courage of (the now blessed) Charles of Austria.
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By Hillsdale College History Faculty 882 pages | ISBN 978-0-916308-28-5
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The Hillsdale College History Faculty painstakingly assembled American Heritage: A Reader in order to provide its own students with a true liberal arts education grounded in the American tradition. This comprehensive collection will provide readers both inside and outside the classroom with a traditional educational experience that enlarges and ennobles the mind.
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By Dorothy Sayers, Gary Wills, James Jackson Kilpatrick, Priscilla L. Buckley, Russell Kirk, Whittaker Chambers and William F. Buckley 112 pages | ISBN 978-0-9758998-4-7
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First published in 1960 to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of Bill Buckley’s brash, consequential magazine of opinion, An Evening with National Review: Some Memorable Articles from the First Five Years is republished, in its exact form, for the enjoyment of today’s conservatives, who can see why the great writers who made National Review their journalistic home in the late 1950s remain worthwhile, entertaining, and timeless.
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By Douglas A. Jeffrey 330 pages | ISBN 978-0-916308-55-1
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This volume includes thirty speeches from the first three decades of Imprimis, the national speech digest of Hillsdale College. Authors include Russell Kirk, Ronald Reagan, George Gilder, Malcolm Muggeridge, Michael Novak, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Margaret Thatcher, among others.
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By Robert B. Carleson 186 pages | ISBN 978-0-978650-23-0
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Government Is the Problem is the story of a broken welfare system that needed to be fixed, of a great leader named Ronald Reagan who said that it could be fixed, of doubters who said that it could not be fixed, and of the man—Robert B. Carleson—who fixed it. Carleson pioneered the true reform that reversed a growing dependence on the welfare state and moved America away from the ruinous path of income redistribution.
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By Warren H. Carroll 393 pages | ISBN 978-0-931888-43-4
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One of the most powerful and compelling figures of all history, Isabel of Spain was a force with which to be reckoned and should rightfully eclipse the better-known Elizabeth of England, both as a woman and as a national leader. The first full scholarly biography of Queen Isabel in English for nearly seventy five years, Isabel of Spain is extensively annotated and eminently readable.
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By Larry P. Arnn 117 pages | ISBN 978-0-916308-00-1
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Larry P. Arnn, the President of Hillsdale College, traces the history of education from the founding of the U.S. Office of Education (based on the Prussian system) in 1869 to the Higher Education Act of 1965 and its subsequent reauthorizations, to contemporary legislation.
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By Larry P. Arnn 159 pages | ISBN 978-0-916308-57-5
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World War II is one of those rare events in history whose retelling will forever guide us toward a deeper understanding of freedom and tyranny; honor and infamy; the roles of prudence, folly, and chance in human affairs; and man’s capacity for courage, endurance, and sacrifice.
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By Warren H. Carroll 119 pages | ISBN 978-0-931888-12-0
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Standard histories on the Age of Colonization tell a sad story of the ills inflicted on indigenous peoples by exploitative Western powers. This book offers a realistic corrective. The Spanish conquest of the New World is shown vividly—in its fervor and exuberance, but most importantly with attention to its central evangelical and civilizing impulse, which made the Americas a central part of Christendom.
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By Martin Morse Wooster 63 pages | ISBN 978-1-892934-05-5
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Return to Charity?: Philanthropy and the Welfare State, by Martin Morse Wooster, clearly explains how the Victorian idea of charity for the poor was replaced by twentieth century social concepts of poverty and social welfare, which culminated in the “Great Society” welfare entitlement programs of the 196os.
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