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• Histoire des martyrs de la liberté (Chez J. Bry ainé, 1851), by Alphonse Esquiros (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la liberté pendant le moyen âge, l'ancien régime et la révolution. (Paris, 1893), by M. J. Roman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of Freedom, and Other Essays, by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton (Gutenberg ebook)

• Der Toleranzgedanke in der deutschen Literatur zur Zeit Moses Mendelssohns; preisgekrönt an der Mendelssohn-Toleranzstiftung. (W. Spemann, 1914), by Yitsḥaḳ Horoṿits (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The influence of liberty on taste, in the ages of Augustus and Louis XIV (Hurd & Houghton, 1869), by James Pech (page images at HathiTrust)

• Heroes and hierarchs : or, Biblical principles as held by Baptists in the contention for religious liberty (Published for the Educational Board of the Michigan Baptist Convention, 1895), by Samuel Haskell, J. A. Smith, and Baptists. Michigan. Michigan Baptist Convention. Education Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• The drama of the ages (Olive Leaf Press, 1917), by Ella R. Shaeffer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religious liberty : an historical paper (Preston & Rounds, 1903), by Henry Melville King (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Christian democracy : a history of its suppression and revival (New York : Eaton & Mains ; Cincinnati : Curts & Jennings, 1896., 1896), by John McDowell Leavitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The struggle for religious and political liberty (The Truth Seeker Company, 1887), by Theo. C. Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Den religiösa toleransens historia (Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri, 1917), by Hjalmar Fredrik Holmquist (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Faith, freedom, and the future (Hodder and Stoughton, 1912), by Peter Taylor Forsyth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bündnis und Bekenntnis 1529/1530 ; Der Toleranzgedanke im Reformationszeitalter: Vorträge gehalten auf der XXV. Generalversammlung des Vereins für Reformationsgeschichte zu Bretten am 22. und 23. April 1908 (Verein für Reformationsgeschichte, 1908), by Hans von Schubert and Heinrich Hermelink (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die unfreie und die freie Kirche : in ihren Beziehungen zur Sclaverei, zur Glaubens- und Gewissenstyrannei und zum Dämonismus (A. Gosohorsky's Buchhandlung (Adolf Kiepert), 1875), by J. Buchmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Toleranzgedanke im Reformationszeitalter. (Verein für Reformationsgeschichte, 1908), by Heinrich Hermelink (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Religionsfrihetens historie : en populær oversigt (H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), 1914), by Georg Fasting (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• To the Pope and all his magistrates and the Protests here they and all Christendom may see the moderation of the heathen emperours to the Christians in the 650 years before there was a Pope, signified by their letters following in the behalf of the Christians liberty which will rise up in judgment against the Popes and their emperours and his magistrates and most of the Protestants, as here you may see in the reading of their declarations and the straitnesse of the orders of those called Christians now, and the largeness of the heathens then, as concerning liberty in the spirit to worship God : and also here you may see the heathen were more moderate to the Christians then the Christians, so called, are to one another : taken out of the ten persecutions. (London : Printed for Thomas Simmons, 1661), by George Fox, Emperor of Rome Hadrian, and Emperor of Rome Antoninus Pius (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Etudes historiques et légales sur la liberté religieuse en Canada (C.O. Beauchemin et Valois, 1872), by S. Pagnuelo (page images at HathiTrust)

• A plea in behalf of liberty of conscience, addressed especially to those in authority in the several governments of Europe. From the yearly meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, held in London, 1856. (Printed by E. Newman, 1856), by London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A paraenetick, or, Humble addresse to the Parliament and assembly for (not loose, but) Christian libertie (London : Printed by Matthew Simmons for Henry Overton ..., 1644), by Roger Williams (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The history of conformity, or, A proof of the mischief of impositions from the experience of more than 100 years (London : Printed by A. Maxwell and R. Roberts, 1681), by John Collinges (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Puritanism and liberty (University of Chicago Press, 1951), by Great Britain. Army, William Clarke, and A. S. P. Woodhouse (page images at HathiTrust)
• A fannaticks addresse humbly presented to the King and his peers, and also to his people in their representative, the Commons House of Parliament ... discovering to them, the innocency of his actings in the midst of the late revolutions of governments in this nation ... / by Henry Adis ... (London : Printed for the author ..., 1661), by Henry Adis (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A legal examination of abuses of law : concerning [brace] Forcible entry, Imprisonment without warrant. Riots, routs and unlawful assemblies. The public peace, and breach of it. Oppression and duress by goals an & goalers, &c. : clearly evincing the abuse and illegality done in the prosecution against the people called Quakers in the city of Bristol. (Printed and sold by Andrew Sowle ..., 1682) (page images at HathiTrust)

• La liberté religieuse et la législation actuelle. (H. Dumineray, 1860), by Edmond de Pressensé (page images at HathiTrust)
• The "Chambre Ardente" and French Protestantism under Henry II. (s.n., 1891), by Henry M. Baird (page images at HathiTrust)

• Studien über Katholizismus, Protestantismus und Gewissensfreiheit in Deutschland. (Hurter, 1857), by Onno Klopp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Hohenzollern und die Religionsfreiheit. (C. Heymann, 1896), by Philipp Karl Ludwig Zorn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Grundrecht der Religionsfreiheit nach seiner geschichtlichen Entwicklung und heutigen Geltung in Deutschland (Duncker & Humblot, 1891), by Hermann Fürstenau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Staat und Kirche in den Debatten der Frankfurter Paulskirche 1848 (Buchhandlung Nationalverein, 1910), by Wilhelm Weissenborn, Hans Maier, and Germany) Paulskirche (Frankfurt am Main (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Certain additional reasons to those presented in a letter by the ministers of London to the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, 1 Jan. 1645. (Printed for Giles Calvert at the black spread-eagle at the west end of Pauls, 1645) (page images at HathiTrust)

• To the king's most excellent majesty, the humble address of the cittizens and inhabitants that are of the Presbyterian perswasion in the city of Edinburgh and Cannongate. ([London, :, and re-printed at Edinburgh,: Printed by T.N., ;, by the heir of Andrew Anderson ..., 1687]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Neutraliteit der overheid in de Nederlandse koloniën jegens godsdienstzaken. (H.D. Tjeenk Willink, 1917), by Willem Henri Alting von Geusau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Anne Hutchinson : a biography (Washburn & Thomas, 1930), by Edith Roelker Curtis, M. A. De Wolfe Howe, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Christian liberties in Boston : a sketch of recent attempts to destroy them through the device of a gag-by-law for Gospel preachers (W. F. Davis, 1887), by Wm. F. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Representacion del vecindario de Mascota al soberano Congreso de la Nacion, contra el artículo 15 del proyecto de constitucion. (Tip. de Rodriguez, 1856) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Expressing the sense of Congress that the George Washington letter to Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, which is on display at the B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, is one of the most significant early statements buttressing the nascent American constitutional guarantee of religious freedom : report (to accompany H. Con. Res. 62). (U.S. G.P.O., 2001), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Obscenity and the Limits of Liberalism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), ed. by Loren Glass and Charles Francis Williams, contrib. by Michael Taussig, Nadine Strossen, Brett Gary, Tim Miller, Jyoti Puri, Laura Kipnis, Mikita Brottman, David Sterritt, and John Durham Peters (PDF at Ohio State)
• Magyar conservativ politika. (Légrády Testverek, 1875), by János de Asbóth (page images at HathiTrust)

• La lucha de los dos principios en Bolivia la primera campaña ([s.n.], 1886), by Aurelio Beltrán (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reformas (Typ. do Diario, 1869), by Centro Liberal (Political party) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The War Against Catholicism: Liberalism and the Anti-Catholic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Michael B. Gross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Building a National Literature: The Case of Germany, 1830-1870 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Peter Uwe Hohendahl, trans. by Renate Franciscono
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• Das Hambacher Fest : Geschichte der revolutionären Bestrebungen in Rheinbayern um das Jahr 1832 (Gerisch, 1908), by Wilhelm Herzberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Montesquieus und Rousseaus Einfluss auf den vormärzlichen Liberalismus Badens (Quelle und Meyer, 1914), by Artur Fickert, Universität Leipzig (1409-1953), and Universität Leipzig (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2011), ed. by Simon Gunn and James Vernon (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2011), ed. by Simon Gunn and James Vernon (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• The ACLU and the Wagner act : an inquiry into the Depression-era crisis of American liberalism (New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1980), by Cletus E. Daniel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shaping modern liberalism : Herbert Croly and progressive thought (University Press of Kansas, 1993), by Edward A. Stettner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Story of Civil Liberty in the United States (New York: Vanguard Press, American Civil Liberties Union, c1927), by Leon Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)

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