The Constitution, Censorship and the Schools: Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes
Peter Neal Herndon
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Coletta, Paolo E. William Jennings Bryan, 3 Volumes. Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, l969. A sympathetic and thorough
treatment of the "Great Commoner." Volume 3 was helpful in its
treatment of the Scopes trial and deals well with the question, "Who
won the Scopes trial?"
Weinberg, Arthur, ed. Attorney For the Damned. New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1957. A summary of the many famous cases Clarence
Darrow was participant in; a good introduction to the Scopes trial to
set the mood.
De Camp, L. Sprague. The Great Monkey Trial. Garden City, New
York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1968. Well-documented, with a
helpful discussion of Darwinian discoveries and experiments; brings
out the humorous as well as the serious.
Ginger, Ray. Six Days or Forever? Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1958. Full of useful quotations;
incisive and personal. Two especially good chapters, "Law as
Symbolic Action" and "Some Perspectives" offer excellent insights
into the trial as it fit into the 1920's and as its legacy lives on today.
Grebstein, Sheldon Norman, ed. Monkey Trial: The State of
Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Company, 1960. Selected documents from the Scopes trial; an
excellent teaching aid. Includes a section called "The Editorial
Reaction" which students should find fascinating; also selections from
Scopes' textbook and the Bible.
Follette, Marcel C., ed. Creationism, Science, and the Law: The
Arkansas Case. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1983.
Documents from the case over "Balanced Treatment" of Creation-
Science and Evolution-Science, with articles by historians, journalists,
scientists and legal experts.
Montagu, Ashley, ed. Science and Creationism. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1984. Fairly technical, philosophical articles; one
excellent contribution is "Creation, Evolution and High School Texts"
which gives actual samples of what Creation-Science texts contain.
Some contributors were witnesses at the Arkansas trial.
National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Science and Creationism.
Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of
Sciences. Washington, D.C.; National Academy Press. 1984. A nicely
illustrated, attractively prepared book particularly created for
classroom use; sensitively written. Only 26 pages.
Shapley, Harlow, ed. Science Ponders Religion. New York: Appleton-
Century-Crofts, 1960. Scientists write about religion; several
selections on evolution and religion and the impact of one on the
other; a philosophical work.
Tompkins, Jerry R., ed. D-Days at Dayton. Reflections on the Scopes
Trial. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1965. Very
useful collection of articles, including John Scopes recollections forty
years after the trial. Includes several Appendices of Affidavits read
into the Dayton Court record in 1925. Illustrated.
Articles
Bentley, Michael L. "On the Teaching of Origins." 70 Today's
Education, 2 (April/May 1981): 56G-58G.
Betts, John Rickards. "Darwinism, Evolution, and American Catholic
Thought, 1860-1900." 45 Catholic Historical Review, 2 (July 1959):
161-185.
"Californians Will Monitor Evolution Teaching in Schools." 26
Christianity Today, 3 (5 February 1982): 69-70.
"The Creationists." Special section in Science 81 (December 1981).
"Creationists Lose in Arkansas." 26 Christianity Today, 2 (22 January
1982): 28-29.
Donohue, John W. "Creation and Evolutions 'A Balanced Treatment.'"
146 America, 5(6 February 1982): 90-92.
Gish, Duane T. "Creation, Evolution, and the Historical Evidence." 35
American Biology Teacher, 3 (March 1973): 132-140
Gish, Duane T. "The Scopes Trial in Reverse." 37 The Humanist, 6
(November/December 1977): 50-51.
Grabiner, J.V., and P.D. Miller. "Effects of the Scopes Trial: Was it a
Victory for Evolutionists?" 185 Science, 4145 (6 September l974):
832-837.
Saladin, Kenneth S. "Opposing Creationism: Scientists Organize." 42
The Humanist, 2 (March/April 1982): 59, 61.
Sky, Theodore. "The Establishment Clause, Congress, and the Schools:
An Historical Perspective." 52 Virginia Law Review, 8 (December
1966): 1395-1466.
Zuidema, Henry P. "Genetics and Genesis: The New Biology
Textbooks that Include Creationism." Creation/Evolution, (Summer
198l): 18-22.
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