Transcribe a Dresden Edition work
Only 16 of the roughly 100 pieces in the twelve-volume Dresden Edition are currently online here. If you would like to help transcribe a specific lecture, essay, or speech, send us a note first so we can coordinate (and so two people don't do the same one). We'll send you the volume scan and formatting notes.
Transcription standards: verbatim from the 1900–1902 Dresden printing. Preserve archaic spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. Editorial notes in square brackets only. See our editorial standards for details.
Submit an essay to the blog
We publish well-researched essays on any of the following:
- Ingersoll's ideas and their contemporary relevance
- His rhetorical craft and oratorical technique
- His relationships with figures of the Gilded Age
- The broader history of American freethought
- Reception history — how his reputation has changed over 125 years
What we look for: clear prose, citations to primary sources where possible, intellectual honesty about uncertainty, and a voice that respects the reader. 800–2,500 words typical. Unsigned polemic and SEO filler will not be considered.
Suggest a correction
If you find a typo in a transcribed work, a wrong date, a misattributed quotation, or a broken link, please tell us. We take corrections seriously and record them visibly when they are substantial. See our editorial standards for how we handle corrections.
Expand “Connections”
The Connections section profiles thirteen of the historical figures in Ingersoll's orbit. We welcome additions, longer individual profiles, or primary-source correspondence for existing figures.
Suggest a resource
If you know of a scholarly article, archive, documentary, or public-domain source that should be on the Resources page, we'd like to hear about it.
What we can't accept
We are not a general-interest freethought blog, a political platform, a venue for debating religion, or an aggregator of other sites. Pitches along those lines will be politely declined. Anything plagiarized, AI-generated without disclosure, or substantially uncited will also be declined.
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