William Louis Poteat (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813121550)

Vendor: Randal L. Hall
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Format: Hardcover
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William Louis Poteat

$30.00

William Louis Poteat

$30.00
Format: Hardcover
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" William Louis Poteat (1856-1938), the son of a conservative Baptist slaveholder, became one of the most outspoken southern liberals during his lifetime. He was a rarity in the South for openly teaching evolution beginning in the 1880s, and during his tenure as president of Wake Forest College (1905-1927) his advocacy of social Christianity stood in stark contrast to the zeal for practical training that swept through the New South's state universities. Exceptionally frank in his support of evol

Author: Randal L. Hall
ISBN-10: 0813121558
ISBN-13: 9780813121550
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/27/2000
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.28w x 0.92d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2001 pg. 966
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2001 pg. 112
By Randal L. Hall
By Randal L. Hall
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Randal L. Hall is managing editor of the Journal of Southern History and adjunct associate professor of history at Rice University. He is the author or editor of several books, including Lum and Abner: Rural America and the Golden Age of Radio. He is also the coeditor of Seeing Jefferson Anew: In His Time and Ours and Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America.

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