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Deep Time and the Civil War Dead
The Civil War's vast death toll joined Earth's deep time story, magnifying its meaning as part of God's creative acts across eons.
by
Caroline Winterer
via
Princeton University Press
on
October 15, 2024
Book
How the New World Became Old
: The Deep Time Revolution in America
Caroline Winterer
2024
Book
The Culture of Classicism
: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910
Caroline Winterer
2004
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The Fight Over the Meaning of Fossils
When the remains of prehistoric creatures were discovered in Europe and the U.S., it opened up a heated debate on the nature of time and the purpose of science.
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Scratching the Surface
How geology shaped American culture.
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The Practical Humanities
Caroline Winterer tells Peter about a debate over practicality and purpose in higher education after the Civil War, and how the humanities offered a solution.
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September 26, 2014
