Fundamentalism and Education in the Scopes Era: God, Darwin, and the Roots of America's Culture Wars
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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 in America. In turn, those transformations determined many of the positions of the “culture wars” that raged throughout the twentieth century.
Preface viiAcknowledgments ixIntroduction 1Part I Fundamentalism and Fundamentalists1 A New Kind of Protestant 112 What's in a Name? 23Part II God and School3 Campus Skirmishes 434 Early Legislative Battles 615 Of Monkeys and Men 77Part III Monkeys and Modernism6 School Legislation after Scopes 997 College Controversies after Scopes 1218 Fundamentalists, Bibles, and Schooling in the 1920s 139Part IV Fundamentalism Transformed9 Fundamentalists and the New Fundamentalism 15910 Fundamentalists Outside the New Fundamentalism 175Conclusion 189Epilogue: Into the Future 193Notes 201Index 247
