Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion Summary
Edward Larson

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion Summary

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion focuses on the Scopes trial, also known as the "Monkey Trial," which happened in Dayton, Tennessee in the summer of 1925. The trial took place over a Tennessee law that banned the teaching of human evolution in public schools. The American Civil Liberties Union wanted to challenge the law, and a young teacher named John Scopes, agreed...

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