Images: Important Books for the Study and Teaching of History

In this lecture, Wes Callihan notes several persons and books that he thinks are important for the study and teaching of history. After recommending travel and time as important teachers, he then lists several important writers on and of history: Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989), Russell Kirk (1918–1984), Gilbert Highet (1906–1978), C.S. Lewis (1898–1963), Edward Gibbon (1737–1794), WinstonChurchill (1874–1965), and Phillip Schaff (1819–1893).

Below are images of each of them and one of their books.

• Practicing History by Barbara Tuchman
• The Roots of American Order by Russell Kirk
• History of the Christian Church by Phillip Schaff
• Memoirs of the Second World War by Winston Churchhill
• English Literature in the Sixteenth Century by C.S. Lewis
• The Classical Tradition by Gilbert Highet
• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon