On this site
Editorial & Research
Editorial framing for the canon and machine-harvestable surfaces for researchers.
Further Reading
Resources
A curated directory for those who want to read more, about Ingersoll, his contemporaries, and the world he lived in.
Primary Sources
The Dresden Edition
Ingersoll's complete works in twelve volumes (1900–1902), free to read, copy, quote, and redistribute.
Biography
Scholarly Biographies
The best published biographies of Ingersoll.
- American Infidel: Robert G. Ingersoll — Orvin Larson (1962)
- The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought, Susan Jacoby (2013)
- Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, Susan Jacoby (2004)
- The Life of Robert G. Ingersoll — Herman E. Kittredge (1911)
Digital Archives
Online Archives
Other reputable digital sources.
Historical Societies
Museums & Societies
Places that preserve Ingersoll's memory and legacy.
Reference
Background Reading
Essential context on the Gilded Age and American freethought.
- Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville
- The Age of Reason, Thomas Paine
- Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
- The Gilded Age, Mark Twain & Charles Dudley Warner
Related Fields
Philosophy & History
For readers pursuing the wider tradition.
- William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
- Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian
- Susan Jacoby, The Age of American Unreason
- Martin E. Marty, Modern American Religion
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