Fred Whitehead

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Whitehead, Fred (1944 - )

Whitehead, who with Verle Muhrer edited Freethought on the Frontier (1992), was on the administrative staff of the University of Kansas School of Medicine, retiring in 2000 as an Associate Professor of Family Medicine.

He received his Ph. D. in English at Columbia University in 1972.

For several decades he has collected scarce materials on American cultural history, especially concerning labor, radicalism, and intellectual controversy, and has published extensively on these subjects. He edited the poetry of two veteran writers, Don Gordon and Vincent Ferrini, for the University of Illinois Press.

Whitehead's Freethought History is a well-documented publication about the heritage of freethought. Included are articles and photographs about authors as well as freethought memorabilia. (Freethought History, Box 5224, Kansas City, Kansas 66119 $10/year, quarterly).

Correspondence

Whitehead's correspondence with Warren Allen Smith about humanism and freethought has been extensive.