men like mordecai ham. in 1923, 1924, ham traveled the south, decrying the teaching of evolution in public schools. and as he did this, he also took the opportunity to take shots at other modern disciplines being taught at the modern university of the 1920's. things like sociology. economics. political science. here is one little excerpt from one of mordecai ham's sermons, 1924. here is what he said. this was delivered in north carolina and this was aimed squarely at the university of north carolina. you today are listening to false prophets and seeing the prophets of god slapped in the face and doing nothing. you put men in your colleges who are known to believe that christ was an illegitimate child. you wonder why russia is swept by bolshevism, why england and even your own country are swept by disruption. the day is not far distant when you will be in the grip of the red terror and your children will be taught free love by that damnable theory of evolution. as a historian, you come across these excerpts,

here is one little excerpts from one of mordecai ham's sermons, 19 .4. here is what he said. this was aimed squarely at the university of north carolina. this is the day of the false prophets and seeing the prophets of god lasted in the face and doing nothing. you put men in your colleges who are known to believe that christ's was an illegitimate child to review wonder why russia is swept by bolshevism, white england and even your own country are swept by disruption. the day is not far distant when you will be in the grip of the red terror and your children will be taught free love by that damnable theory of evolution. as a historian, you come across these excerpts, and that is a wow moment. wow. there is a lot going on there, isn't there? you bet there is. people like mordecai ham, billy sunday, william jennings bryan again, they believe in what connect the iww with cubism. you take that modern sensibility and it opens up this universe of anxieties. ok, another incarnation of this defense of tradition at this time comes in 1915 with the rebirth of the ku klux klan. the ku kl