There is a good case to be made that Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is the single most famous work of history ever written in the English language. Published in the ...

With the growing fear that the United States may be entering a period of decline, I recently expressed a desire to read Edward Gibbon’s “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” ...

British historian Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794) was not the first writer to popularize the concept of Rome’s “decline and fall,” but he was such a gifted stylist and diligent scholar that his influence ...

Close to 3 centuries ago this month, on 8 May 1737, Edward Gibbon was born. 51 years later, on 8 May 1788, the last volume of his great history came out. His friends threw him a party in London ...

Over the weekend, Musk shared an image that featured a stack of books, including the volumes of Edward Gibbon's "The Decline & Fall of The Roman Empire," published in 1776.

It took Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) the better part of two decades and six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. According to Gibbon, “The decline of Rome was the natural ...

In 1776, when Adam Smith published his classic “Wealth of Nations”, British essayist Edward Gibbon (1737 to 1794) wrote an equally famous text, “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman ...