FROM DAYTON TO DOVER: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN CONTROVERSY OVER TEACHING EVOLUTION, with Edward Larson March 15, 2009

Celebrating the bicentennial of Charles Darwin! Almost immediately upon the publication of The Origin of Species, the social and religious implications of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution launched a culture war over the teaching of evolution in American public schools that continues to this day. Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Dr. Edward Larson traces the history of those controversies in their cultural and religious contexts.

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