Rich with such iconic figures as Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Paine, and the once-famous Robert Green Ingersoll, Freethinkers restores to history the passionate humanists who struggled against those who would undermine the combination of secular government and religious liberty that is the glory of the American system.
Chapter 1: Revolutionary Secularism
Chapter 2: The Age of Reason and Unreason
Chapter 3: Lost Connections: Anticlericalism, Abolitionism, and Feminism
Chapter 4: The Belief and Unbelief of Abraham Lincoln
Chapter 5: Evolution and Its Discontents
Chapter 6: The Great Agnostic and the Golden Age of Freethought
Chapter 7: Dawn of the Culture Wars
Chapter 8: Unholy Trinity: Atheists, Reds, Darwinists
Chapter 9: Onward, Christian Soldiers
Chapter 10: The Best Years of Our Lives
Chapter 11: Culture Wars Redux
Appendix: Robert Ingersoll’s Eulogy for Walt Whitman, March 30, 1892