Freethought History (68 books)

Histories that feature or include freethinkers, and freethought books that feature or include history.

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1	Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby 4.06 avg rating — 4,583 ratings score: 696, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought by Susan Jacoby 4.03 avg rating — 717 ratings score: 594, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Doubt: A History by Jennifer Michael Hecht 4.08 avg rating — 3,317 ratings score: 486, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	What's God Got to Do with it? Robert Ingersoll on Free Thought, Honest Talk & the Separation of Church & State by Robert G. Ingersoll 4.31 avg rating — 324 ratings score: 454, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism by Christopher Cameron 4.58 avg rating — 31 ratings score: 247, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll by Robert G. Ingersoll 4.63 avg rating — 54 ratings score: 199, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion by Michael Taylor 4.05 avg rating — 654 ratings score: 198, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World by Tim Whitmarsh 3.77 avg rating — 923 ratings score: 197, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Village Atheists: How America's Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation by Leigh Eric Schmidt 3.67 avg rating — 67 ratings score: 195, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Imagine There's No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World by Mitchell Stephens 3.97 avg rating — 104 ratings score: 194, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans by David Niose (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 610 ratings score: 193, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution by Rebecca Stott 3.75 avg rating — 1,967 ratings score: 191, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Freethought Across the Centuries: Toward a New Age of Enlightenment by Gerald A. Larue 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 186, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	400 Years Of Freethought by Samuel Porter Putnam 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 156, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Perdendo Tempo Com Deus: Por Que Sou Ateu by Paulo Bitencourt (Goodreads Author) 4.54 avg rating — 28 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Liberated from Religion: The Inestimable Pleasure of Being a Freethinker by Paulo Bitencourt (Goodreads Author) 4.41 avg rating — 46 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn 4.03 avg rating — 29,714 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter: Ernestine Rose, International Feminist Pioneer by Bonnie S. Anderson 3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	AD 381: Heretics, Pagans and the Christian State by Charles Freeman (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 410 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason by Charles Freeman (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 2,193 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America by James C. Turner 4.13 avg rating — 78 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Atheists, Agnostics, and Deists in America: A Brief History by Peter M. Rinaldo 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Western Atheism by James Thrower 3.97 avg rating — 35 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Letters from an Atheist Nation: Godless Voices of America in 1903 by Thomas J. Lawson (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 36 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	The Original Atheists by S.T. Joshi 3.68 avg rating — 28 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Women Without Superstition : No Gods - No Masters by Annie Laurie Gaylor 4.34 avg rating — 149 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	A History of Atheism in Britain: From Hobbes to Russell by David Berman 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Atheism in Pagan Antiquity by Anders Bjørn Drachmann 3.17 avg rating — 24 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Atheism in France, 1650-1729, Volume I: The Orthodox Sources of Disbelief by Alan Charles Kors really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Atheism, Religion and Enlightenment in pre-Revolutionary Europe (Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series, 83) by Mark Curran 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France by Jennifer Michael Hecht 3.79 avg rating — 33 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Godless Communists: Atheism and Society in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932 by William B. Husband 3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Liberals under Autocracy: Modernization and Civil Society in Russia, 1866–1904 by Anton A. Fedyashin 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Atheism and Deism Revalued by Wayne Hudson liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	The Hammer of the Cartesians: Henry More's Philosophy of Spirit and the Origins of Modern Atheism by D Leech it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Upwellings: First Expression of Unbelief in Printed Literature of the French Renaissance by Max Guana 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	George Eliot: Godless Woman by Brian Spittles liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	The Bradlaugh Case: Atheism, Sex, and Politics Among the Late Victorians by Walter L. Arnstein 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Storming the Heavens: The Soviet League of the Militant Godless by Daniel Peris 3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Word Crimes: Blasphemy, Culture, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century England by Joss Marsh 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Atheism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment by Micheal Hunter (Editor) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	The Alternative Tradition: Religion and the Rejection of Religion in the Ancient World by James Thrower liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Thomas Jefferson's Freethought Legacy by Roger E. Greeley (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Seasons of Freethought: The Collected Freethought Works of G.W. Foote by George William Foote 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	John Emerson Roberts: Kansas City's ''Up-to-Date'' Freethought Preacher by Ellen Roberts Young (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	A Short History Of Freethought: Ancient And Modern (1899) by J.M. Robertson 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Heroines of Freethought by Sara A. Underwood 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 65, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Unbelievers: The Evolution of Modern Atheism by S.T. Joshi 3.61 avg rating — 36 ratings score: 64, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	American Infidel: Robert G. Ingersoll by Orvin Larson 4.30 avg rating — 54 ratings score: 62, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Romantic Atheism: Poetry and Freethought, 1780–1830 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 37) by Martin Priestman 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings score: 61, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	Diagoras of Melos: A Contribution to the History of Ancient Atheism (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 350) by Marek Winiarczyk really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 60, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Rational Mothers and Infidel Gentlemen: Gender and American Atheism, 1865-1915 (Women and Gender in North American Religions) by Evelyn A. Kirkley 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 59, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Free-Thought on the American Frontier by Fred Whitehead (Editor) 4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings score: 57, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Kentucky's Most Hated Man: Charles Chilton Moore and the Bluegrass Blade by John Sparks 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 56, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	D.M. Bennett, the Truth Seeker by Roderick Bradford really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings score: 55, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Mistress of Herself: Speeches and Letters of Ernestine L. Rose, Early Women's Rights Leader by Ernestine Rose it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings score: 54, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism by Victoria Smolkin (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 71 ratings score: 53, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	Atheists in American Politics: Social Movement Organizing from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries by Richard J. Meagher it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 52, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	Race in a Godless World: Atheism, Race, and Civilization, 1850–1914 (Secular Studies, 3) by Nathan Alexander (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 51, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Evil Little Things: A Study of the Women Who Shaped Secular Humanist and Atheist Activism in post World War II America by Sylvia Broeckx 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings score: 49, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	Naturalism and Unbelief in France, 1650–1729 by Alan Charles Kors 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 48, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	The Lord Was Not On Trial: The Inside Story Of The Supreme Court's Precedent Setting Mc Collum Ruling by Dannel McCollum 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings score: 47, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	Popular Freethought in America, 1825-1850 by Albert Post really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 46, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	Radicals, Secularists, And Republicans: Popular Freethought In Britain, 1866-1915 by Edward Royle 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 45, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	American Freethought, 1860-1914 by Sidney Warren liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 44, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	A History of Freethought in the Nineteenth Century by J.M. Robertson 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 43, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	Fifty Years of Freethought by George Everett Macdonald 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 42, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century: A Literary History of Atheism by James Reeves it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 41, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars