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Tuesday, March 6, 2018


Mar15 Alt ?s Freethinker by Jacoby (7-8).

1.   What brilliant young scholar became a protégé of William James? (191).

2.   Time has borne out the truth of Stanton’s belief that what? (204).

3.   Whose poetry became a touchstone for, and a connection among, many kinds of American freethinkers before the First World War? (222).

4.   Full human development for any woman, Goldman argued, must come how? (236).

5.   Bryan did not grasp what truth about social reforms? (246).

6.    On appeal of the Scopes verdict, Darrow and the ACLU did not have the chance to argue what? (248).

7.    Birth control, like evolutionism and bolshevism, was identified with what in the conservative religious universe? (260).

8.   With hindsight, the twenties can best be seen as a decade that what? (262).

9.   The one commercially successful attempt by a freethinker to reach a mass audience in the twenties and thirties—a series of literary classics and iconoclastic contemporary fiction and nonfiction were known as the what? (263).


 Alternative discussion questions.


1.       Discuss how fundamentalists have used control of textbook content to limit students’s access to the latest biological information. What if anything can be done to reverse this process?

2.       How have political parties evolved and changed over time with respect to women’s rights?

1 comment:

  1. Alternative Questions Answers:

    1. Du Bois
    2. A vote was not enough to end hate/prejudice.
    3. Whitman
    4.It must come through and from herself. First in her personality and secondly by only making the decisions she wanted to make.

    Discussion Question Answers:

    1. Public Memory is the most affected item in regard to fundamentalists' efforts. This can be seen in the school in North Carolina where a science teacher told the city to reject solar panels because it would "suck all the energy from the sun". It can also be seen in issues dealing with race. The Daughters of the Confederacy completely altered the past and the nation's view of race and the Civil War during the early 1900s.
    The best way to combat this misleading rhetoric is to vote. Vote for candidates who are open for transparency. Advocate for more science in our politics and more science in our school.

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