Topics
Ingersoll wrote and lectured on a small number of recurring themes for thirty years. Browse the corpus by theme rather than by volume.
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Religion & Belief
Lectures, debates, and replies on God, the Bible, the church, and the rational basis (or lack thereof) of religious claims.
59 works
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Freethought
The intellectual lineage Ingersoll claimed, Paine, Voltaire, Hume, Bruno, and his case for reason against orthodoxy.
16 works
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Politics & Government
Stump speeches, convention orations, and political commentary from Reconstruction through the Gilded Age.
25 works
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Liberty & Rights
Free speech, free thought, the rights of conscience, and the limits of toleration.
26 works
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Women & Family
Ingersoll on marriage, divorce, women's suffrage, and the equality of the sexes.
10 works
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Science & Reason
Darwin, Humboldt, evolution, and Ingersoll's argument that science is the great liberator of the human mind.
25 works
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Law & the Courts
Trial summations, legal arguments, and reflections on jurisprudence from Ingersoll's distinguished legal career.
25 works
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Tributes & Eulogies
Funeral orations and memorial addresses, including the celebrated tributes to Ebon C. Ingersoll, Walt Whitman, and Roscoe Conkling.
38 works
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Labor & Economy
On working hours, wages, free trade, the labor question, and the relationship between property and humanity.
4 works
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War & the Civil War
Ingersoll's reflections on his Civil War service, the Union cause, Reconstruction, and the soldiers' sacrifice.
31 works
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Literature & the Arts
Lectures and essays on poets, novelists, the stage, and the place of literature in a free society.
14 works