Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents
The Scopes trial shocked America. Tennessee schoolteacher John Scopes brought the question of teaching evolution in schools to every dinner table, and it remains an essential topic in any course on American History, the History of Education, and Religious History. This volume’s lively interpretative introduction provides an analysis of the trial and its impact on the moral fiber of the country and the educational system, and examines the race and gender issues that shook out of the debate....
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The Scopes trial shocked America. Tennessee schoolteacher John Scopes brought the question of teaching evolution in schools to every dinner table, and it remains an essential topic in any course on American History, the History of Education, and Religious History. This volume’s lively interpretative introduction provides an analysis of the trial and its impact on the moral fiber of the country and the educational system, and examines the race and gender issues that shook out of the debate. The editor has excerpted the crucial exchanges from the trial transcript itself, and includes these along with reactions to the trial, taken from newspaper reports, letters, and magazine articles. Telling political cartoons and evocative photographs add a colorful dimension to this collection, while a chronology of events, questions for consideration, and a bibliography provide strong pedagogical support. Booknews The moral decline of youth; the growing cleavages opened up by race, region, and urbanization; the struggle between majoritarianism and rights-based libertarianism; and the clash between older religious attitudes and modern secularism are among the cultural conflicts Moran (U. of Kansas) finds to have informed the now famous trial of a Tennessee high school teacher for teaching human evolution in July 1925. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
ForewordPrefacePt. 1Introduction: The Scopes Trial and the Birth of Modern America1Evolution before the 1920s3The Struggle against "Modernity" and Modernism8William Jennings Bryan and the Antievolution Argument13The Butler Bill and the Fight for the Public Schools20Making a Test Case24Opening Day: The Attorneys and Their Strategies28Days Two through Four: Religious Freedom vs. Legislative Authority33Days Five and Six: Experts and Outsiders39And on the Seventh Day, Bryan Took the Stand46Aftermath: From Scopes to Creationism50South vs. North or Country vs. City? Region and Ruralism in the Antievolution Conflict56The Role of the Schools: Academic Freedom vs. Majority Rule59Race and Evolution66Women and Gender in the Scopes Trial70Pt. 2The Scopes Trial Day by Day: Transcript and Commentary731First Day's Proceedings: Friday, July 10, 1925742Second Day's Proceedings: Monday, July 13, 1925793Third Day's Proceedings: Tuesday, July 14, 1925944Fourth Day's Proceedings: Wednesday, July 15, 1925995Fifth Day's Proceedings: Thursday, July 16, 19251076Sixth Day's Proceedings: Friday, July 17, 19251367Seventh Day's Proceedings: Monday, July 20, 19251398Eighth Day's Proceedings: Tuesday, July 21, 1925162Pt. 3The Scopes Trial and the Culture of the 1920s: The Documents1711Cartoonists Draw the Scopes Trial1712Race and the Scopes Trial1803Educational Freedom and the Scopes Trial1894The Scopes Trial and the "New Woman"1995Religious Alternatives in the 1920s2056An Invasion of "Outsiders"?210AppA Chronology of Events Related to the Scopes Trial (1859-1999)215App.: Questions for Consideration218App.: Selected Bibliography220Index222
\ BooknewsThe moral decline of youth; the growing cleavages opened up by race, region, and urbanization; the struggle between majoritarianism and rights-based libertarianism; and the clash between older religious attitudes and modern secularism are among the cultural conflicts Moran (U. of Kansas) finds to have informed the now famous trial of a Tennessee high school teacher for teaching human evolution in July 1925. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
