THE SCOPES TRIAL (AKA THE MONKEY TRIAL)

• The Players

  • Clarence Darrow, Counsel for the Defense

    • Clarence Darrow Webpage

    • Clarence Darrow Links

    • Douglas Linder, Clarence Darrow Page

    • Art Thomas and Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, Clarence Darrow

    • Rob Zuber, Clarence Darrow Misquoted by Creationists

  • William  Jennings Bryan, Counsel for the Prosecution

  • H. L.Mencken, Journalist and Curmudgeon Extraordinaire

    • Gibbons Burke, Henry Louis Menken (1880-1956)

    • H. L. Mencken

    • Mencken Quotes

    • Quotes From H. L. Mencken

• The Trial

  • The Scopes Monkey Trial (From Douglas Linder's Famous Trials website)

  • The Scopes Monkey Trial (From Michigan State University)

  • The Scopes Monkey Trial

  • Newspaper Coverage Then and Now

    • Scopes Trial Grips Nation

• Films and Books About the Trial

  • Inherit the Wind

    • Inherit the Wind: A Student Paper

  • Edward Layton, Summer for the Gods

• Science and Creationism: A Website of the National Academy of Sciences

• Related U.S. Statutes and Cases

  • 1995/96 South Carolina Bill GB 3462

  • Edwards v. Aguillard (U.S. Sup. Ct.)

  • Epperson v. Arkansas (U. S. Sup. Ct.)

  • McLean v. Arkansas (U.S. District Court)

  • Peloza v. Capistrano Unified School District (9th Circuit)

  • Seagraves v. California (U. S. Sup. Ct.)

  • Webster v. New Lenox School District (7th Circuit)

• Related Websites

  • Charles Darwin: Works Online

    The Darwin-Wallace 1858 Evolution Paper

    Down House: Darwin's Home

  • Creationism References

  • Diamond, Jared, Why Did Human History Unfold Differently on Different Continents For the Past 13,000 Years?

  • Enter Evolution

  • MendelWeb

  • Planetary Biology (Tom Morris' website; includes discussion of history of evolutionary thought)

  • Principia Cybernetica Web: The History of Evolution

  • Selected Links on Creation/Evolution

  • University of Pennsylvania Center for Electronic Text and Images: Edgar Fahs Smith Collection of Images

  • Alfred Russel Wallace, On the Law That Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species

  The Debate over the Teaching of Evolution in U.S. Schools

  • Teaching Evolution in Kansas Schools

    CNN Report