CHAPTER SEVEN. The Development of High School Biology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ILLUSTRATIONS xi
4. PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii
5. INTRODUCTION. Toward a Cultural History of American Biology 3
6. PART I. NATURALISTS AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
7. CHAPTER ONE. Natural History and Manifest Destiny, 1800–1865 15
8. CHAPTER TWO. Culturing Fish, Culturing People: Federal Naturalists in the Gilded Age, 1865–1893 44
9. CHAPTER THREE. Conflicting Visions of American Ecological Independence 71
10. PART II. SPECIALIZATION AND ORGANIZATION
11. PROLOGUE: Whitman’s American Biology 94
12. CHAPTER FOUR. Life Science Initiatives in the Late Nineteenth Century 99
13. CHAPTER FIVE. Academic Biology: Searching for Order in Life 126
14. CHAPTER SIX. A Place of Their Own: The Significance of Woods Hole 145
15. PART III. THE AGE OF BIOLOGY
16. PROLOGUE. A View from the Heights 166
17. CHAPTER SEVEN. The Development of High School Biology 171
18. CHAPTER EIGHT. Big Questions 194
19. CHAPTER NINE. Good Breeding in Modern America 214
20. EPILOGUE 239
21. NOTES 245
22. INDEX 303