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- 1.The Birth of Freedom
- 2.Athenian Democracy
- 3.Athens — Freedom and Cultural Creativity
- 4.Athenian Tragedy — Education for Freedom
- 5.Socrates on Trial
- 6.Alexander the Great
- 7.The Roman Republic
- 8.Julius Caesar
- 9.Freedom in the Roman Empire
- 10.Rome — Freedom and Cultural Creativity
- 11.Gibbon on Rome’s Decline and Fall
- 12.Jesus
- 13.Jesus and Socrates
- 14.Paul the Apostle
- 15.Freedom in the Middle Ages
- 16.Luther and the Protestant Reformation
- 17.From Machiavelli to the Divine Right of Kings
- 18.The Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty
- 19.The Shot Heard ’round the World
- 20.The Tyranny of George III
- 21.What the Declaration of Independence Says
- 22.Natural Law and the Declaration
- 23.Miracle at Philadelphia
- 24.What the Constitution Says
- 25.The Bill of Rights
- 26.Liberty and Lee at Gettysburg
- 27.Liberty and Lincoln at Gettysburg
- 28.FDR and the Progressive Tradition
- 29.Why the French Revolution Failed
- 30.The Liberal Tradition
- 31.Churchill and the War for Freedom
- 32.The Illiberal Tradition
- 33.Hitler and the War Against Freedom
- 34.The Cold War
- 35.Civil Disobedience and Social Change
- 36.Freedom and the Lessons of History