Atheism has long, underground tentacles which reach deep into human history. This section of American Atheists Online uncovers them through the lives of many of our spokesmen and women and restores to you a sense of the precious heritage they fought to bequeath to our times.

• Our first two articles were originally published in the February 1987 issue of The American Atheist. They were among several articles in that issue dedicated to Atheism in Black America.
  • Hubert Henry Harrison: The Black Socrates
  • No More Ham -- A look at several Black Atheist Leaders
  
  
• Professor John G. Jackson gave a speech at the American Atheists 1984 Convention on The Black Atheists of The Harlem Renaissance

• Do Atheism and politics mix? Here is one answer: The Hon. Atheist Governor: Culbert L. Olson. From the April 1990 issue of The American Atheist.

• Ernestine Rose: A Troublesome Female

• Edwin C. Walker: American Atheist. From the American Atheists Radio Series.

• Who are the freethinkers? Another episode from the American Atheists Radio Series.

• The Enlightenment, Freemasonry, and The Illuminati; an examination of Freemasonry, with its founding and subsequent role in the Enlightenment, and an examination and defense of the maligned, little-understood sect of the Illuminati — a defense long overdue.

• James Lick

• Atheist Musicians. From The American Atheist Radio Series.

• From the July 1991 issue of The American Atheist: Robert Owen. Robert Owen was a Welsh Philantropist, social reformer, and Atheist.
  • Robert Owen
  • A Declaration of Mental Independence, by Robert Owen
  
  
• Mangasar Magurditch Mangasarian by Madalyn Murray O'Hair

• From the March, 1988 issue of American Atheist:
  • Charles Watts
  • Christianity, Its Nature and Influence on Civilisation by Charles Watts

• Susan B. Anthony. This was originally published as a three-part series in the 1979 Summer issues of The American Atheist; coincident with the then-new Susan B. Anthony one-dollar coins.

• Kersey Graves, author of Sixteen Crucified Saviors

• Abner Kneeland From The American Atheist February and March 1981

• From the February, 1991 issue of American Atheist:
  • Grant Allen
  • What is the object of life? by Grant Allen
  
  
• From 1983: Robert G. Ingersoll

• George Jacob Holyoake
  • George J. Holyoake - The last man in England tried for Atheism
  • George J. Holyoake by Madalyn Murray O'Hair. From April, 1988
  • The Logic of Death by George J. Holyoake

• Thomas Alva Edison
  • An Introduction by Frank Zindler
  • An Interview that appeared in the New York Times on 2-Oct-1910
  • An Interview that appeared in the Columbian Magazine in January 1911

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