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How the New World Became Old

The Deep Time Revolution in America
  • Caroline Winterer
2024
Princeton University Press

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  • A lithograph illustrating the discovery of iguanodon fossils in Bernissart, Belgium, 1878
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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.
    by Andrew Katzenstein via The Nation on September 22, 2025
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    Scratching the Surface

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    Retrieval

    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
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