The small town of Dayton, Tennessee, hosted the "trial of the century" in a clash over the teaching of evolution in public ...

Armstrong, Karen, The Battle for God (New York: Knopf, 2000). Ashby, LeRoy, William Jennings Bryan: Champion of Democracy (Boston: Twayne, 1987). “The Baiting of ...

Tom Morgan, who lives in the hills above Dayton, performs songs inspired by the trial, like this song about John Scopes: That the old religion's better after all. H. L. Mencken came up to the ...

Though Edgar Kemler's title would imply that his new book is a biography of H ... incident and the Scopes "Monkey Trial" (he contends that "perhaps" Scopes was influenced by Mencken's writing ...