Fundamentalism and Education in the Scopes Era: God, Darwin, and the Roots of America's Culture Wars

by Adam Laats

Book Overview

This book takes a new look at one of the most contentious periods in American history. The battles over schools that surrounded the famous Scopes "monkey" trial in 1925 were about much more than evolution. Fundamentalists fought to maintain cultural control of education. As this book reveals for the first time, the successes and the failures of these fundamentalist campaigns transformed both the fundamentalist movement and the nature of education...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230623727
• ISBN13: 9780230623729
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"