History of Freedom of Thought, A

In this classic, A History of Freedom of Thought, J. B. Bury provides a dramatic survey of intellectual history, clearly and eloquently describing the struggle for intellectual freedom from ancient times to the beginning of the 20th century. 

J. B. Bury was an Irish historian, classicist, and philologist. His classic works include History of the Later Roman Empire, and Idea of Progress. He died in 1927.