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" And so evolved our method of teaching the history of medicine and related sciences by displays of the great books , done by small groups of students and exhibited in flat , locking glass cases which nearly filled the foyer of the Woodward Library . Girard recounts the shock of recognition he experienced in coming to the New Testament after studying violence and the sacred in anthropology and the history of religion . The minute I hear a laugh track I 'm on to something else , usually CNN or the History Channel . Participants were briefed on the history of the Sonora research station and the history of grazing on the Edwards Plateau . As social history grew more popular , more and more historians began to use interviews as a way to collect the histories of those who had never had their stories documented : African-Americans , women , members of the working class , members of isolated ethnic communities and members of sexual minorities . For our sermons , they often have to do with ethics , beliefs that seem to span the spectrum of many faith traditions , calls to put our UU principles into action in our communities , exploring the histories of the two movements that came together to form the UUA , etc. Sermons in my UU congregation tend to lean toward the " thou shalt " kinda thing , and challenge folks to step out and do something - study , practice , learn , become involved in the wider community , that sort of thing . In the histories written by Michel Foucault , especially The Birth of the Clinic ( 1973 ) , and in the work of those like Barbara Duden who followed him , the vacuum created by the opposition of church and science was filled by accounts of the state and descriptions of an elaborated criminal justice system . As Elizabeth Spelman demonstrates in Inessential Woman , and the histories of black feminists have also made clear , racism and the privileges of class were not ' baggage ' but were in fact integral to the entire project of feminism .