[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 44 (Tuesday, April 21, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H2061-H2062]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 CONGRATULATIONS TO EDWARD LARSON ON A PULITZER PRIZE FOR BEST WORK OF 
                                HISTORY

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of 
January 21, 1997, the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Metcalf) is 
recognized during morning hour debates for 5 minutes.

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  Mr. METCALF. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to have this opportunity to 
extend my congratulations to Edward Larson, recipient of a Pulitzer 
Prize for the ``Best Work of History'' for his book, Summer for the 
Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and 
Religion.
  Edward Larson teaches law and history at the University of Georgia, 
but for 7 months of the year does all his writing in Snohomish County 
as a resident of Washington's Second Congressional District, with his 
wife and two children.
  Summer for the Gods is Larson's fourth book and focuses on the 1925 
trial of John Thomas Scopes, a Tennessee high school biology teacher 
charged with breaking the State law which prohibited teaching Darwin's 
theory of evolution in public schools.
  Edward Larson has a Ph.D. in the history of science and a law degree. 
He is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle and teaches 
science history. He will receive his Pulitzer Prize on May 28 at a 
ceremony at Columbia University in New York.
  I am sure all of my colleagues join me in extending warmest 
congratulations to Edward Larson and his Pulitzer Prize-winning work.

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