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Going ape Florida's battles over evolution in the classroom
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Going ape [electronic resource] : Florida's battles over evolution in the classroom / Brandon Haught.
ISBN
081304877X
9780813048772
9780813049434 (alk. paper)
Published
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2014.©2014. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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Summary
In this book, Haught chronicles the war over teaching evolution in Florida's schools, from the first shouts of religious persecution and child endangerment in Tallahassee in 1923 to the forced delays and extra public hearings in state-level textbook adoptions today.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2014 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2014 US Regional Studies, South.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 12, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"Between the devil and the deep blue sea"
"Un-American, atheistic, subversive, and communistic"
"A spirit of compromise and conciliation"
"A history of hoaxes, deception, and deceit"
"A conspiracy to destroy the faith of children"
"It was historic, wasn't it?"
"One of the primal evils in our country"
"There are razor blades in that apple"
"I want God to be part of this"
"Who gets to decide what is science?"
"Standing up for the little guy".
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