Scopes Trial
Photographic History
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
23 August 2000
Summary
It was a big story in a small place. During the summer of 1925, the tiny hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the most controversial trials in American history. In a move designed partly as a publicity scheme and partly as a means to test a newly enacted anti-evolution law, a young teacher named John Thomas Scopes agreed to be arrested for teaching Darwin’s theory of natural selection in the public schools. The resulting courtroom showdown pitted Clarence Darrow, the bri…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781572330818 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1572330813 |
| Author: | Edward J. Larson, Edward Caudill, Jesse Fo Mayshark |
| Publisher: | University of Tennessee Press |
| Imprint: | University of Tennessee Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 23 August 2000 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 204mm x 255mm x 8mm |
About The Author
Edward J. Larson
Edward J. Larson is Richard B. Russell Professor of History and professor of law at the University of Georgia. His book Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over Science and Religion won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for history.Jesse Fox Mayshark is senior editor of Metro Pulse, a weekly newspaper in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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