Articles in regional publications that pertain to a wide range of North Carolina-related topics.
Politics and Piety in North Carolina: The Fundamentalist Crusade at High Tide, 1925-1927
Abstract:
This article examines the rise in Religious (Protestant) Fundamentalism in reaction to the wave of secularism and irreverence that arose after the First World War and finally ignited by the controversy over Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the crusade to protect the \"old fashioned Christian Commonwealth\" from the \"forces of the antichrist\" took hold during this period.