Eugene F. Provenzo

History of education and culture in America

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Religion and Public Education: An Introduction to the Special Issue

RELIGION REPRESENTS one of the most constant and contentious issues in American culture and society. As a subject, it also raises some of the most important questions for those interested in educational policy analysis. The theme of this special issue is religion and education. The immediacy of this topic came home to us as we began to prepare the issue during the summer of 1999. At that time, the debate concerning evolution and whether it should be included in the curriculum of the public schools reemerged as a national issue when the Kansas State Board of Education voted 6 to 4 to remove the teaching of evolution from the state’s curriculum standards. The conflict concerning evolution goes back more than 75 years to 1925, when John T. Scopes, a biology teacher and coach, was convicted of teaching evolution in a Dayton, Tennessee, high school. Scopes had violated the 1925 Butler Act, which made it unlawful to “teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible.” The details of the story are well-known. Newspaper coverage made the trial a national event—perhaps the first nationally driven media debate about religion and education. Subsequently, through the play and movie Inherit the Wind, the Scopes Monkey Trial became a part of our literary and cultural consciousness. Scopes lost the trial in Dayton. After an appeal, the Tennessee Supreme Court dismissed his conviction. Despite this fact, the Butler Act remained on the books until 1967. Its influence, and the values that supported it, could be found in other regions of the country. One of the authors of this introduction,

Illustrated Souls of Black Folk

Foreword. Introduction. Fifty Years After. The Forethought. Of Our Spiritual Strivings. Of the Dawn of Freedom. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others. Of the Meaning of Progress. Of the Wings of Atalanta. Of the Training of Black Men. Of the Black Belt. Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece. Of the Sons of Master and Man. Of the Faith of the Fathers. Of the Passing of the First-Born. Of Alexander Crummell. Of the Coming of John. Of the Sorrow Songs. The Afterthought. Afterword. Explanatory Notes. Chronology of the Life of W. E. B. Du Bois. Index

Beyond the Gutenberg Galaxy: Microcomputers and the Emergence of Post-Typographic Culture

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