The Scopes Trial: A Brief History With Documents

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)