Anti-Evolution
Statute
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Genesis
Stories
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Excerpts
from
Scopes Trial Transcript
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Observer's
Account
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Mencken'sTrial
Account
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Biographies
of
Key
Figures
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Text
Used by Scopes
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Dayton,
Tennessee
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Trial
Pictures
and Cartoons
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Darrow
Page
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Appellate
Decisions
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Scopes
Trial
Satire
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Chronology
& Year 1925
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Trial
of
the Century?
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Evolution
Controversy
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Inherit
the
Wind
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Expert's
Impressions
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Clarence
Darrow
and William Jennings Bryan during the
trial
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The
Scopes
Trial: An
Introduction
by
Douglas
Linder (c)
2008
The early
1920s found
social
patterns in chaos.
Traditionalists,
the older Victorians, worried
that everything valuable was
ending.
Younger
modernists no longer asked
whether society would approve of
their
behavior,
only whether their behavior met
the approval of their intellect.
Intellectual
experimentation flourished.
Americans danced to the sound of
the Jazz
Age,
showed their contempt for
alcoholic prohibition, debated
abstract art
and
Freudian theories. In a response
to the new social patterns set
in
motion
by modernism, a wave of
revivalism developed, becoming
especially
strong in the American
South.
Who
would dominate American
culture--the modernists or the
traditionalists?
Journalists were looking for a
showdown, and they found one in a
Dayton,
Tennessee courtroom in the summer
of 1925....[CONTINUED] |
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