Author: Timothy Binga
Timothy Binga is the director of the Center for Inquiry Libraries, which contain one of the largest collections of Little Blue Books in the world, and various other publications and artifacts from the Hal Verb Collection. Cataloging and arranging of these materials is under way, and plans include placing this collection within CFI’s new Rare Book Room.
Elbert Hubbard: Torchbearer for Freethought
Susan Jacoby, in her book Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (2004), wrote about the “Golden Age of Freethought” and specifies the years 1875 to 1914 as freethought’s heyday. Understandably, Robert Green Ingersoll was the era’s standard-bearer for the freethought cause. Ingersoll was probably the most-heard speaker in the United States before the advent of …
Preserving Our Free-thought Heritage Redux
The CFI Libraries Keep Growing When I began working at the Center for Inquiry Libraries back in 1996, I was not completely sure what freethought was. I had a few notions, but I had never read a formal definition. I discovered a possible reason that I didn’t know much about freethought in an article that …