Past Masters: Classic Texts in English Literature, History, Philosophy & Political Science
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What Is Past Masters?
Past Masters is a collection of online, full-text humanities databases, comprised of definitive editions of humanities texts, including published and unpublished works, articles, essays and correspondence. You may search individual online collections or select multiple collections to search at once. The University of Nevada, Reno has licensed the Past Masters databases listed below.
Links to Individual Past Masters Databases
The links below connect to individual author-related or thematic databases. UNR faculty and students may copy these URLs to use in their own teaching and research, e.g., for course-related Web pages and similar uses. The URLs below have been modified to support "Click & Go" access when you are off campus.
Reference Sources
- Oxford Classical Dictionary. Edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. Third edition. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Collected Works
- Aquinas: Collected Works
- Aristotle: Complete Works
- Augustine: Works
- Calvin: Works and Correspondence
- Darwin: Works
- Hegel:Oxford University Press Translations
- Locke: Philosophical Works & Selected Correspondence
- Locke: Correspondence
- Luther: Sermons
- Marx and Engels: Collected Works
- Ockham: Work of Ninety Days
- Plato:Collected Dialogues
- Poinsot: Tractatus de Signis - John Poinsot (John of St. Thomas)
- Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill
English Letters
- The Latin Background: 1100–1550
- The Emerging Tradition: 1500–1700
- The Eighteenth Century
- The Romantic Age
- The Modern Era: 1800-1950
- Wordsworths (Dorothy, Mary & William): Collected Letters


