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Freethought Across the Centuries: Toward a New Age of Enlightenment

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As a curriculum developer I found Dr. Larue's book to be avaluable resource book. I and my co-author had the task of developinga set of supplemental teaching materials for use in California and other states that are teaching about religion. Driven by current social forces, schools, and hence textbook publishers are including the teaching of religion in history and social science classes. These textbooks generally forget that many important changes in society were brought about by individuals who were not only not religious, but often were anti-religious. Our approach was to utilize individuals from Larue's work as a foundation for a set of teacher materials to teach about the many nonconforming individuals in history. We used Larue's book to produce a time line of freethought across centuries. And we created a number of concept and story lessons and activities based on individuals in his book. His introductory chapters served as a major source for the development of two pamphlets of background information for teachers. I found the work to be accurate and complete, and a well-referenced source of information of many of the people in history that should be in history books, but are either overlooked or ignored. I would recommend it as a fine authoritative documentation of the multitude of freethinkers who have given to all of us many of the important ideas which serve as the foundations to our current liberty and freedom.