Creationism
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
James David Bales Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1256
Scope and Content Note
The collection includes materials related to Bales and his family; his career as a teacher, writer, and polemicist; and research files. Series I-IV pertain to his personal life, writings, correspondence, and career at Harding College. Also included are materials related to Harding College president George S. Benson and the National Education Program. Series V-XIII consist of topical research files created by Bales, the contents of which were used to write books, articles, and class lectures....
Dates:
1914-1995; 1940-1995
Creation Science Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 701
Scope and Content Note
Papers created by plaintiffs' attorneys during the Arkansas Civil Liberties Union's successful challenge of that state's creation science law (Act 501) of 1981. The material consists of legal documents, correspondence, notes, and research files.
Dates:
1981
Matthew McNair Interviews
Collection
Identifier: MC 2328
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists of four audiocassette tapes containing interviews that Matthew McNair conducted as part of research for his 2008 master’s thesis, “Another brick in the wall: the rhetoric of creationism, science, and education, and the fate of the establishment clause in the American classroom," which explores American policy and legislation (such as Arkansas' Act 590 in 1981) regarding the teaching of creationism in public schools, as well as challenges to those laws, such as...
Dates:
circa 2006-2007
Anne Farris Rosen Collection of George Fisher Cartoons
Collection
Identifier: MC 2608
Content Description
12 George Fisher cartoons related to issues in Arkansas regarding the teaching of creation science and evolution, including Act 490 and the McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education court case.
Dates:
circa 1981-1982