The Scopes Trial: A Photographic History

by Edward Caudill

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B005FR55IA
• ISBN13: 9781572330818
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 10.1" x 8.1"