The Story of Liberty
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The Story of Liberty
| Author | Charles Carleton Coffin |
|---|---|
| Published | 1878 |
| Pages | 415 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Charles Carleton Coffin’s nineteenth-century popular history that tells the rise of liberty as a single providential story running from Magna Carta through the Reformation to the American founding. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @typesfast — listed as “The Story of Liberty (1886)” in the replies when he asked on X “What’s the best history book you’ve read?”, June 2025. Full list: What’s the best history book… (tweet).
About this edition
The recommendation dates it 1886, which is one of its later printings; Coffin first published it in 1878.
Connections
- Christianity — the providential frame the book is built on.
- Religious Intellectualism — history written as an argument about God’s involvement in it.
- History — useful as a period artefact of how Victorians narrated progress.
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.