Adam Laats researches and writes about conservative educational activism. He taught middle- and high school for ten years in sunny Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He now teaches history and education classes in the Graduate School of Education and History Department at Binghamton University (SUNY). He was trained as a historian at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he studied with educational historian William J. Reese and historian of science and medicine Ronald L. Numbers.
He has published widely about the history of conservatism in America’s schools. His first book, Fundamentalism and Education in the Scopes Era: God, Darwin, and the Roots of America’s Culture Wars (Palgrave Macmillan 2010) recently came out in paperback. He has published articles in such scholarly journals as Church History, History of Education Quarterly, and Teachers College Record. He has contributed essays to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Washington Post’s Answer Sheet blog and to the History News Network.
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