The Scopes Trial

The Scopes Trial Considered a "Duel to the Death" by the people involved, the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial did not deliver a final verdict on the then controversial issue of evolution being taught in public schools. Jeffrey Moran identifies the 1920's evolutionary debate as "a battle within a much larger cultural war further complicated by urbanism and regionalist tensions between the North and South" (3). One of the stated points of the book is to "clear away …

…of that time. Works Cited: 1.<Tab/>Edwards, Mark "Rethinking the Failure of Fundamentalist Political Antievolution After 1925," Journal of History, vol: 32 iss: 3 p. 89, 2000 2.<Tab/>Moran, Jeffrey P. The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents. Bedford/St. Martins, Boston 2002 3.<Tab/>Moran, Jeffrey "The Scopes Trial and Southern Fundamentalism in Black and White: Race, Region, and Religion." The Journal of Southern History, vol: 70 iss: 1 p. 99