Additional Assignments

  1. Write a paper that examines how the fundamentalist-modernist controversy in American religion provides a window into larger debates and concerns experienced by most Americans in the interwar era related to such issues as politics, race, immigration, gender roles, reform, and new scientific knowledge.
  2. Using audio and video clips available on the Internet, create a presentation for class that illustrates the innovative and modern tactics, methods, and technologies that fundamentalists around the nation used in the 1920s to spread their message.