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R. Laurence Moore
R, Laurence Moore was born in Houston Texas on April 3, 1940. He received his B,A, degree from Rice University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history from Yale University. He taught American Cultural History at Cornell University from 1972 until he retired as the Howard A. Newman Professor in 2010, He served as Chair of the History Department and Head of the American Studies. His major publications include In Search of White Crows: Spiritualism, Parapsychology, and American Culture; Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans; Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture; and (with Isaac Kramnick) The Godless Constitution. A Moral Defense of the Secular State.