Challenging Religious Dogma: A History of Free Thought

"Challenging Religious Dogma" traces the roots of freethinking in Europe and the United States back to the ancient world and up to the late 20th century. The early materials illustrate the strength of Special Collections' rare books, with marvelous copies of works by Aristotle, Copernicus, and Galileo, as well as Locke, Hume, and Rousseau. Most of the 19th and 20th century materials come from the holdings of the Labadie Collection, founded through a generous gift of the personal papers and library of Jo Labadie, the "gentle Anarchist" of Detroit, in 1911. The Labadie Collection is one of the richest assemblages of primary sources of social protest literature in the world.