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May 24, 2005

  ?Wm J. Bryan and Clarence Darrow
Face History at the Scopes Trial?

Charles Postel, Department of History
California State University, Sacramento

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Charles Postel link is an Assistant Professor at California State University, Sacramento, and also serves as academic advisor to the OUSD Teaching American History grant (2004 - 2007). He received his Phd in history from UC Berkeley in 2003 and is author of the forthcoming book Power and Progress: A History of American Populist Thought.

Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan during the trial
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Web Links
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Suggest a resource NEW
  • American Experience: Monkey Trial
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/

  • Scopes Trial Home Page - by Douglas O. Linder, UMKC School of Law
    A site dedicated to the explication of the Scopes Monkey Trial.
    http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm

  • The Library of Congress tells the story of the Scopes Trial
    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/may05.html

  • The Scopes Monkey Trial : Courtroom Television Network
    http://www.courttv.com/archive/greatesttrials/scopes/

  • The story of the Scopes trial is retold in this Paramount and Pathe News film "Greatest Headlines of the Century," produced in 1960
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/08/2/l_082_01.html

  • The Scopes 'Monkey Trial' - July 10-25, 1925
    http://www.dimensional.com/~randl/scopes.htm

  • "75 years after the Scopes trial pitted science against religion, the debate goes on" By Raju Chebium, CNN.com Correspondent, July 13, 2000
    http://archives.cnn.com/2000/LAW/07/13/scopes.monkey.trial/

  • "In Kansas, A Sharp Debate on Evolution Educators Consider Intelligent Design" by By Peter Slevin Washington Post Staff Writer, Friday, May 6, 2005
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/05/

  • Divining America: Religion and the National Culture
    An online curriculum supplement for teachers from the National Humanities Center
    http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/tserve.htm

  • The Complete Works of Robert Ingersoll [1833 - 1899]
    19th century political activist, orator, agnostic
    http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/

  • Famous American Trials: . The Sweet Trials 1925 & 1926.
    http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/sweet/sweet.html

  • Famous American Trials: Illinois v. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, 1924
    http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/leoploeb/leopold.htm

Books

  • Summer for the Gods The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson winner of the Pulitzer prize in history link to Amazon

  • The Scopes Trial : A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) by Jeffrey P. Moran link to Amazon

  • Arc of Justice : A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age, by Kevin Boyle Describes Clarence Darrow's other famous trial amid the charged racial atmosphere of Detroit link to Amazon

Read more about the trial at this PBS webiste Monkey Trial

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