Brinkley, Alan.Liberalism and Its Discontents. Harvard University Press, 1997. Compilation of essays that explore the history of liberalism in the United States since the 1930s.
Jenkins, Roy.The British Liberal Tradition. University of Toronto Press, 2001. A lecture delivered at the University of Toronto in which Sir Roy traces the rise and fall of British liberalism from Gladstone to the present.
Mill, John Stuart.On Liberty and Other Essays. Cambridge University Press, 1991. Classic text of modern liberalism; also includes “The Subjection of Women” and posthumously published “Chapters on Socialism.”