What does it mean to be atheist in America? Leigh Eric Schmidt, the Edward C. Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, tells the history of American secularism and the many individuals — such as atheist sex reformer Elmina D. Slenker — who dissented, at their peril, with prevailing pieties. Despite separation of church and state, Schmidt shows faith and citizenship are often interwoven