_Out of the Collected Essays on World and American History_contains a series of essays on various issues in world history and American history. Subjects discussed range from the witchcraft trials in Salem in the 1690’s to the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930's to the Watergate Scandal of the 1970's. Among the historical figures that are profiled are Plato, Augustine, Jeremy Bentham, Alexis de Tocqueville, Michael Sullivan, Alfred T. Mahan, and, as a group, the Transcendentalists..
