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Teaching Evolution in a Creation Nation

Adam Laats

Altogether, Laats and Siegel offer the kind of level-headed analysis that is crucial to finding a way out of our culture-war deadlock.

The Moody Bible Institute and the meaning of fundamentalism, ...

Adam Laats

Roots of the culture wars: fundamentalists and American ...

Adam Laats

Fundamentalism and Education in the Scopes Era: God, Darwin, ...

A. Laats

This work explores the wide-ranging educational activism of conservative Protestant fundamentalists in the 1920s.

Miseducation: A History of Ignorance-Making in America and ...

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ADAM LAATS Academic historians winced when they heard her say it. In her 2011 bid for the presidential nomination, Michele Bachmann insisted that the Founding Fathers had “worked tirelessly” to end slavery. It was simply not true.

The Other School Reformers: Conservative Activism in ...

Adam Laats

See Trey Kay, Deborah George, and Stan Bumgardner, “The Great Textbook War ,” American RadioWorks. http://americanradioworks. publicradio.org/features/ textbooks/index.html (accessed January 14, 2013); see also Catherine Ann Candor, ...

American Genesis: The Evolution Controversies from Scopes to ...

Jeffrey P. Moran

... Protestantism at the Turn of the Century,” American Historical Review 68 (April 1963): 618, 622. 6. William R. Glass, Strangers in Zion: Fundamentalists in the South, 1900–1950 (Macon, GA, 2001), 34, 58–59; more directly, see Adam Laats  ...

American Evangelicalism: George Marsden and the State of ...

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... Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 62; Riley quoted in Adam Laats, “More Than a Monkey Trial: Fundamentalism and American Education in the 1920s” (PhD diss.,  ...

Between Church and State: Religion and Public Education in a ...

James W. Fraser

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. Chapter 6 • The Many Origins of the Scopes Trial, 1859–1925 Several studies provide a careful introduction to the Scopes Trial and its aftermath. Adam Laats, The Other School Reformers: ...

The Other School Reformers: Conservative Activism in ...

Adam Laats

154, 156–157, 180–183, 186, 196, 204, 206, 210, 216–217, 224 National Society of the Daughters ofthe American Revolution. See Daughters ofthe American Revolution New Right, 187,232, 302n296 NewYork StateEconomic Council,74, 103 ...