- 1Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton) — Inaugural Lecture…
- 2Notes to the Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History
- 3I — Beginning of the Modern State
- 4II — The New World
- 5III — The Renaissance
- 6IV — Luther
- 7V — The Counter-Reformation
- 8VI — Calvin and Henry VIII
- 9VII — Philip II, Mary Stuart, and Elizabeth
- 10VIII — The Huguenots and the League
- 11IX — Henry the Fourth and Richelieu
- 12X — The Thirty Years’ War
- 13XI — The Puritan Revolution
- 14XII — The Rise of the Whigs
- 15XIII — The English Revolution
- 16XIV — Lewis the Fourteenth
- 17XV — The War of the Spanish Succession
- 18XVI — The Hanoverian Settlement
- 19XVII — Peter the Great and the Rise of Prussia
- 20XVIII — Frederic the Great
- 21XIX — The American Revolution
- 22Appendix
Lectures on Modern History
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