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Teaching Evolution in a Creation Nation

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...
Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from ...

Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from ...

Karen Chilton

Wil Haygood, King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. ( New York: Houghton Mif›in, 1993), 1. 5. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Adam by Adam : The Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (New York: Dial, 1971), 30. 6.
Adam: Number 6 in series

Adam: Number 6 in series

Jacquelyn Frank

When the unthinkable happens, only one legendary male has the power and the will to save them: Adam. From their first tantalising touch, Jasmine knows Adam is different.
Fundamentalism and Education in the Scopes Era: God, Darwin, ...

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.
Adam Robots: Short Stories

Adam Robots: Short Stories

Adam Roberts

Unique twisted visions from the edges and the centre of the SF genres. Stories that carry Adam Roberts' trademark elegance of style and restless enquiry of the genre he loves so much.
George Washington/Adam Haslett: Akashic U.S. Presidents Series

George Washington/Adam Haslett: Akashic U.S. Presidents Series

Adam Haslett

In this book, bestselling author, Adam Haslett, introduces this surprisingly contemporary guide to manners and mores and considers whether or not the current President lives up to the virtues extolled by his predecessor.
Friends' Review: A Religious, Literary and Miscellaneous Journal

Friends' Review: A Religious, Literary and Miscellaneous Journal

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and Adam Gibson; that the prisoner was Adam Gibson. He was the slave of Parson Davis of Maryland, but had never belonged to Knight. The other witness stated, that he knew Charity, the mother of Adam Gibson, while she was the slave of ...
FROM JAMESTOWN TO TEXAS: A History of Some Early Pioneers of ...

FROM JAMESTOWN TO TEXAS: A History of Some Early Pioneers of ...

Betty Smith Meischen

In another, it says “issued 10 Jul 1788, entered 28 Oct 1783” 222 “There is an Adam Grimes who died October 1794 and wife Anna Barbara buried Bethany Ch Cem. Is this the above Adam Grimes? The Adam Grimes noted on Farmers Creek  ...
Finding Adam: Epstein and Harewood: an Extraordinary Story

Finding Adam: Epstein and Harewood: an Extraordinary Story

Kerry Harker

The event will comprise of a lecture by Art Historian and Epstein expert Dr Evelyn Silber, followed by a guided tour of the 'Finding Adam' Exhibition led by Harewood's Curator.This is a unique opportunity to see the 'Finding Adam' ...
The Philosopher At The End Of The Universe: Philosophy ...

The Philosopher At The End Of The Universe: Philosophy ...

Mark Rowlands

mmemmunmwwmm) Adam Gibson's memory and the cigars being stashed in the car. And so cloned Adam Gibson's memory qualifies as a real memory rather than a pseudo-memory. 50, according to the memory theory, cloned Adam Gibson ...
Manual de Doenças Oculares do Wills Eye Hospital - 6ed: ...

Manual de Doenças Oculares do Wills Eye Hospital - 6ed: ...

Adam T. Gerstenblith

Diagnóstico e Tratamento no Consultório e na Emergência Adam T. Gerstenblith, Michael P. Rabinowitz ... Adam Gerstenblith e Michael Rabinowitz, os editores da sexta edição, foram extremamente eficientes na revisão desta nova edição: a ...
Adam Smith

Adam Smith

Jonathan Conlin

Cited in Nicholas Phillipson, Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life (London, 2011), p. 104. Cited ibid., p. 85. 2 Spectatorship and Sympathy, 1751–63 Ian Campbell Ross, The Life of Adam Smith (Oxford, 1995), p. 118. Ibid., p. 194. Ralph S. Walker ...
Close Reading with Paired Texts Level 5: Engaging Lessons to ...

Close Reading with Paired Texts Level 5: Engaging Lessons to ...

Oczkus, Lori

Mollycules. Adam: Hey, look, Mom, I'm an atom! Mom: Adam: It's a supercharged superhero, like me! Mom: little confused. Neutron: Arf! Mom: That's enough from you, Neutron. Molly: are cooler anyway. Adam: It's not "Molly-cules," you know!
Adam's Latin Grammar with Some Improvements - Scholar's ...

Adam's Latin Grammar with Some Improvements - Scholar's ...

Alexander Adam

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Understanding the Cold War: A Historian's Personal Reflections

Understanding the Cold War: A Historian's Personal Reflections

Adam Bruno Ulam

On that score, Adam Ulam's [Understand the Cold War] succeed on every level. To spend time with this book is to spend time with Adam himself. ..
Adam of the Road

Adam of the Road

Elizabeth Janet Gray

Eleven-year-old Adam Quartermayne searches the English countryside for his minstrel father, and his dog Nick during the thirteenth-century.
Adam Jones

Adam Jones

Mattern Joanne

Baseball. Minneapolis: Bellwether Media, 2010. WORKS CONSULTED Astute. “ MLB All-Star Adam Jones Interview." http://astutemagazine.com/mlb-all-staradam -jones-interview/ Blumberg Mayhugh, Jess. "Adam Jones is Engaged." Baltimore  ...
Adam

Adam

Ariel Schrag

When Adam Freedman — a skinny, awkward, inexperienced teenager from Piedmont, California — goes to stay with his older sister Casey in New York City, he is hopeful that his life is about to change.
The light in the piazza: piano vocal selections

The light in the piazza: piano vocal selections

Adam Guettel

A bittersweet new Broadway musical by Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel.

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