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 some of the clutter left by seventy-five years of historical interpretation of the Scopes trial" (2). While not clearing much of the co…