Voltaire versus Macaulay about Truth in History
An alternate Primary Source Project for Chapter One
"The Huron" by Voltaire (1767) and The History of England by Macaulay (1848)
Citations
"The Huron by Voltaire (1767)" in Brian A. Pavlac. A Concise History of Western Civilization: Supremacies and Diversities, 13-14. Second Edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. Originally published in Voltaire's Romances Translated from the French: A New Edition, with Numerous Illustrations. New York: Peter Eckler, 1885, pp. 299–301. [1885 edition on Google Books] [1889 edition with illustrations] [Le Huron ou L'Ingénu, Second Edition. Geneva: n. p., 1767 here or here]
"The History of England by Macaulay (1848)" in Brian A. Pavlac. A Concise History of Western Civilization: Supremacies and Diversities, 41-42. Second Edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. Originally published in Macaulay, Thomas Babington. The History of England from the Accession of James II. 5 vols. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. Vol. 1, pp. 2–3, 23–26. [https://archive.org/details/historyenglandf07trevgoog] [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1468/1468-h/1468-h.htm]
Further Links and materials for study
"Voltaire, A Brief Life". [part of exhibit on Candide] . <http://candide.nypl.org/content/voltaire-a-brief-life>.
Donald A. Grinde, Jr. and Bruce E. Johansen. “Chapter 4: ENNOBLING `SAVAGES' Native America in European natural-rights philosophy,” Exemplar of Liberty: Native America and the Evolution of Democracy, 1990 <http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/EoL/chp4.html>.
Brian Freeman. Voltaire the Historiographer. <http://digitaldisruption.blogspot.com/2010/01/voltaire-historiographer.html>.
Brian J. Hayes? Age of Sage. Macauley <http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/history/historian/Thomas_Macaulay.html>.
Lord Macauley, "The Task of the Historian." [reprint from History, Edinburgh Review, May 1828] <https://archive.org/details/lordmacaulaytask00maca>.
Dean Nelson, “Thomas Babington Macaulay: a giant of the British Empire.” 27 Oct 2010. <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/8090422/Thomas-Babington-Macaulay-a-giant-of-the-British-Empire.html>.
