Evolution Versus Creationism in Education

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Apple
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Intelligent Design ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Evolutionary Perspectives ◽  
Populist Movements

As part of the continuing series of the Reviewing Policy section, this article examines some of the recent literature on the creation-evolution controversy. These controversies are placed within a larger analysis of the growth of authoritarian populist movements in the United States. The article then focuses attention on debates both over a number of arguments surrounding the ways in which intelligent design had been justified and surrounding some of the dangers of possible arrogance that have been associated with the history of the popularization of evolutionary perspectives. The author then offers some strategic suggestions for going forward.

Republika Dziecięca Williama Rubena George’a – jako przykład pracy z młodzieżą niedostosowaną społecznie w Stanach Zjednoczonych

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-49
Author(s):  
Bartosz Kułan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Juvenile Delinquency ◽  
The United States ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
George Junior Republic

The article presents the history of the children’s republic founded by William Ruben George (1866–1936). The first part of the article focuses on familiarising readers with the figure of William Ruben George – the founder of the George Junior Republic. This figure and his activities have not been known in the Polish scientific discourse so far. The following sections discuss the general characteristics of the fight against juvenile delinquency in the United States and the reasons for the creation of the George Junior Republic. The next part focuses on the governance system in the George Junior Republic and the daily lives of the pupils.

Land Crabs, Land Ironclads, Landships

2019 ◽  
pp. 26-45
Author(s):  
Jon B. Mikolashek
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Army ◽  
Military History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early History ◽  
American Military ◽  
Land Crabs ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation

The chapter covers the early history of what will become known as the tank and the creation of the United States Tank Corps. Patton is the first “tanker” in American military history. After leaving the staff of John J. Pershing, Patton embarks on an educational journey to learn about tanks. He attends tank school in France and tours the Renault tank factory. It is here that he learns to drive a tank and selects the Renault light tank for use by the United States Army. The Renault tank is covered in detail, and Patton prepares to establish the American light tank school in France.

Race, Space, Time

Peyote Effect ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 169-176
Author(s):  
Alexander S. Dawson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
African American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Short History ◽  
Spanish Inquisition ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Over Time

We begin the book’s conclusion with the juxtaposition of two different stories of peyotism: the creation of an ecotourism business featuring Wixárika peyotism in Potrero de la Palmita, Nayarit, in 2010 and the short history of an African American peyotist church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the 1920s. The former is licit, enjoying support by a state committed to economic development, while the latter faced constant threats from the police before collapsing, in part due to its members’ fear of arrest. These two stories remind us of the central roles that place and time play in the history of peyotism across the U.S.-Mexican border, but they also force us to consider the ways that ideas about race have informed the battles over peyote in Mexico and the United States. Particularly striking is the fact that the racial prohibitions enacted by the Spanish Inquisition resonate with current law. Also notable is the fact that Mexicans and Americans have deployed similar ideas about race over time in their battles over peyote. This speaks to the underlying anxieties that indigeneity evokes in both societies, as well as the role that indigenous subjects have played in the creation of whiteness in both the United States and Mexico.

Emotion, Colonialism and Immigration Policy

2018 ◽  
pp. 37-50
Author(s):  
Ala Sirriyeh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigration Policies ◽  
British Colonialism ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Second Wave

This chapter examines the connection between colonialism and the emotion of compassion in contemporary immigration policy by reviewing key discourses present in the colonial and immigration histories of Australia, the UK and the United States. It first provides an overview of the history of British colonialism and how it gave rise to the ‘civilising process’, along with the rise of the discourse of ‘benevolent colonialism’ during the second wave of empire. It then considers the emergence and development of exclusionary immigration policies from the 1890s to 2000s, focusing on the links made between race and immigration in these periods, the creation of a distinction between ‘deserving’ refugees and ‘undeserving’ asylum seekers, and the criminalisation of migration. The chapter shows how anxieties and fears about immigration have shaped the emotional regimes of immigration policy and how such regimes have been constructed around attempts to identify and exclude undesirable immigrants.

Bookshelf: Kappan authors on their favorite reads

2021 ◽  
Vol 102 (5) ◽  
pp. 69-69
Author(s):  
Lois Beardslee
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Intelligent Design ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scientific Creationism ◽  
Brown Decision

In this monthly column, Kappan authors discuss books and articles that have informed their views on education. Lois Beardslee recommends Jim Crow’s Children: The Broken Promises of the Brown Decision by Peter Irons. Adam Laats recommends The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design by Ronald Numbers. And Antony Farag recommends An Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and other books in the Revising History series.

The Cambridge History of America and the World

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global History ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Early American ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Indentured Servants

The first volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States emerged out of a series of colonial interactions, some involving indigenous empires and communities that were already present when the first Europeans reached the Americas, others the adventurers and settlers dispatched by Europe's imperial powers to secure their American claims, and still others men and women brought as slaves or indentured servants to the colonies that European settlers founded. Collecting the thoughts of dynamic scholars working in the fields of early American, Atlantic, and global history, the volume presents an unrivalled portrait of the human richness and global connectedness of early modern America. Essay topics include exploration and environment, conquest and commerce, enslavement and emigration, dispossession and endurance, empire and independence, new forms of law and new forms of worship, and the creation and destruction when the peoples of four continents met in the Americas.

“Old” Economic History in the United States: 1939–1954

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristel de Rouvray
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 1960S

This paper investigates the actions of a small, yet influential group of American economists who sought to claim economic history for themselves and use it as a springboard to launch a wider transformation of economics. Their actions constitute an episode of dissent in the history of twentieth century economics, albeit an unusual one. These dissenters were not a socially or intellectually marginalized group, but rather a set of privileged scholars who were able to leverage their contacts within the profession and amongst its patrons to further their vision. Their actions could almost be described in Kuhnian terms: they consciously sought to trigger a “paradigm shift” to bring about a social science better suited, in their views, to a world in political and economic turmoil (Kuhn 1962). In spite of the Kuhnian allusion to “scientific revolution,” this paper is not about the 1960s “cliometric revolution,” but about the 1940s and '50s and the little known events that led to the creation of the Economic History Association, the Journal of Economic History, and Explorations in Entrepreneurial History (subsequently Explorations in Economic History).

scholarly journals From the “Beginning”: Anglo-American Settler Colonialism in New England

Genealogy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Ashley (Woody) Doane
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Family History ◽  
New England ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Plymouth Colony ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Anglo American

In this article, I use the lens of critical family history—and the history of the Doane family—to undertake an analysis of Anglo-American settler colonialism in the New England region of the United States. My standpoint in writing this narrative is as a twelfth-generation descendant of Deacon John Doane, who arrived in Plymouth Colony circa 1630 and whose family history is intertwined with issues of settler colonial conquest and dispossession, enslavement, erasure, and the creation of myths of origin and possession. This analysis is also grounded in the larger contexts of the history of New England and the history of the United States. I conclude with a reflection upon the implications of settler colonial myths and historical erasure for current racial politics in the United States.

Palestinian Offices in the United States: Microcosms of the Palestinian Experience

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-118
Author(s):  
Michael R. Fischbach
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Palestine Liberation Organization ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Information Center ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The U.S

The September 2018 decision by the administration of U.S. president Donald Trump to close the offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Washington and expel the PLO ambassador and his family was the latest chapter in the long and difficult history of Palestinian efforts to maintain information and diplomatic offices in the United States. From the opening of the first Arab information office in the United States in 1945, to the establishment of the first specifically Palestinian information center in 1955, to the creation of the first PLO office in 1965, the Palestinians’ twin goals of representing their people and providing information about their cause on the soil of Israel's greatest ally has been hindered by challenges and threats from a variety of sources. Indeed, the long saga of trying to maintain an official presence in the United States is a microcosm of the wider Palestinian national drama of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, replete with Zionist attacks, debilitating inter-Arab and intra-Palestinian rivalries, political ineptitude, the struggle to achieve diplomatic legitimacy, and hostility from the U.S. government and its pro-Zionist politicians.

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