The Adoption History Project at the University of Oregon is devoted to making adoption history accessible and interesting to visitors who may not be aware that adoption has a history at all. Contact project author Ellen Herman.

Read a March 9, 2007, essay in Commonweal about the legacy of Darwin’s controversial views on race and eugenics.

Read a June 26, 2007, New York Times essay on theology in the wake of discoveries about the brain and the evolution of morality.

Read a June 17, 2008, entry on The New York Times’ “Wild Side” blog by evolutionary biologist Olivia Judson titled “Darwinmania.”

A Religion News Service piece analyzing the portrayal of torture in the 2012 movie “Zero Dark Thirty.”

Read an Aug. 23, 2008, New York Times story about a Florida high school teacher approaching the subject of evolution in his science class.

Scientific American’s January 2009 issue was dedicated to a discussion of the implications of Darwin and evolution.Read an article it included by the National Center for Science Education’s Glenn Branch and Eugenie Scott about teaching evolution in public schools.

As this New York Times story reports, a study published in the January 2011 edition of Science magazine found that just 28 percent of biology teachers consistently teach the evidence for evolution; 13 percent explicitly advocate creationism.

An May 31, 2013, opinion piece published in the New York Times that asks if force-feeding prisoners on hunger strike constitutes torture. The question came about after detainees in the U.S.’s Guantánamo Bay prison facility in Cuba refused to be fed in protest of new rules.