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Title
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Summer for the Gods: the Scopes trial and America's continuing debate over science and religion.
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Description
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Draws from new archival material, as well as historical and legal analysis to examine the many facets of the Scopes trial of 1925 in which the American Civil Liberties Union challenged a controversial Tennessee law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools, and considers the impact of that trial on the continuing debate between religion and science.
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Identifier
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707121
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465075096
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Creator
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Larson, Edward J
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Source
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Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection
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Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.
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Catalog record
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Language
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eng
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Date
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1997
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Program air date: June 28, 1998
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Publisher
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BasicBooks
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George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives
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Text
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Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpapers, and half-title: Why monkey trial, monkey state. 1925 Dayton, TN. Inherit the Wind. Scopes Trial Museum, Scopes Festival, Bryan College, Inherit the Wind (1955). The Trial--Scopes and Bryan Jr. went swimming in mountain stream. Rappleyea--31 yrs. old. Scopes 25 yrs old. Hunter Civic Biology. 9 min discussion. 1948-1962>Outlawing of school prayers--Hugo Black p 249 Thurs 3. Bryan--a liberal Democrat--everyone else on his side were right wing fundamentalists. H.L. Mencken--what was his role. Bryan--July 26 dies p 200. Peerless leader, the great commoner. The role of the ACLU. Misdemeanor--most widely publicized. Scopes would not testify 173. Bryan resigns in 1915 as Sec. State because of WWI p 35. Congress from Nebraska at age 30. The boy orator of the Platte. Modernism. 200 speeches a year. Worked for 4 amendments: 1. Prohibition; 2. Direct election of Senators; 3. Progressive fed income tax; 4. female suffrage. Moved to Miami “weekly Bible talks,” “German militarism was connected to Darwinism. Billy Sunday--former Chi. Cubs outfielder. TN Supreme Court appeal--Bryan's son Jr. gets involved p 217. John Scopes refuses to go to court court upheld statue dismissed Scopes conviction 220. At the end of the century the legacy of the Scopes trial is up for grabs. p 224. George W. Rappleyea p 88. Herbert and Sue Hicks prosecution. Fred Robinson--Drugstore owner claimed Rhea County School Board. John T. Scopes--24 years. Biology teacher--chain smoker. Kentucky U student--father socialist, agnostic. Hometown Salem Ill. same as Bryan. Hicks stood besides Scopes and said he would prosecute p. 91. Governor Austin Peay. H.L. Mencken's comment on Dayton 93. Dudley Field Malone--worked for Bryan at State Dept--resented his former boss joined Darrow p 101. John T. Raulston--presiding judge from chat. Roger Baldwin--prison. National Civil Liberties Bureau becomes ACLU. Arthur Garfield Hays--most influential lawyer on ACLU exec. comm. Named after Rep. Presidents. Clarence Darrow--premier defender of (68 yrs old) radical labor leaders. Ran for Congress--lost by 100 votes. 1911 murder trial--2 labor leader blew up L.A. Times Building. John R. Neal--acted as a local counsel for defense had run for Gove against Peay. ACLU first big issue--academic freedom. Lucille Milner--ACLU secretary found story on TN bill in TN newspaper. Lamb checks some of the sections on the Contents page. Notes: “New material,” “courthouse lawn,” “200 reporters,” “fossils,” “missing link,” “George William Hunter,” “Bryan on evolution,” “WWI,” “modernism,” “Weekly Bible talks,” “6 states,” “Florida,” “TN 1.2 million, 1 mil. church goers,” “$500 fine,” “Senate judiciary approves Butler bill,” “Race riots,” “Harding,” “serve labor,” “anti-Catholic KKK,” “John Neal,” “getting rid of atheists,” “John Dewey,” “Mencken on Dayton,” “Cordell Hull,” “Darrow,” “surrounding Scopes,” “monkeys,” “Vanderbilt,” “Coolidge, Butler for pay,” “most newspapers,” “press bias in favor of Darrow,” “real facts difficult,” “a Jew,” “only 2 scientists went to Dayton,” “8 scientists,” “Darrow liked in Dayton,” “evil times,” “a joke,” “six blocks,” “WGN,” “200 reporters,” “temp 90s, Bryan arrives,” “Scopes reaches for baggage,” “Judge Raulson,” “July 10, 500 visitors,” “reporters,” “Colonel,” “Mary Baird Bryan,” “the jury,” “opening day,” “3000 people,” “Darwin's speech,” “liberal skeptic,” “lavender suspenders,” “two hour speech,” “record telegraph,” “Mencken on Darrow speech,” “Scopes did not testify,” “the statute,” “wooden monkey,” “ceiling fans,” “press standing ovation, Scopes writes 40 years later,” “Darrow to call Bryan,” “Darrow suppress court prayer,” “Darrow in contempt,” “Darrow apologizes. . .calls Bryan,” “3000 on the lawn,” “Bible literalists,” “Both men stand,” “Raulston expunges Bryan testimonies from record,” “9 min. jury decision,” “Bryan remains in Dayton 15,000 word speech,” “upset Bryan,” “July 26 dies in his sleep,” “buried at Arlington,” “Scopes songs,” “[ACLU] ease out Darrow,” “Charles Evans Hughes,” “TN oral argument,” “Scopes didn't attend,” “Darrow prepared closing,” “court failed to stir passion,” “TN court ended case,” “court upheld statute, dismissed Scopes,” “1928 Arkansas anti evolution statute,” “Darrow--auto-biography 1932, Hays-“ 1928,” “Jerry Falwell,” “Bryan liberal democrat,” “McCarthy,” “3 years on Broadway, movie,” “history classrooms,” “1948 Hugo Black,” “Fortas,” “Memphis,” “Black and Fortas,” “1982 Polls,” “Supreme Court, Scalia,” “new Christian schools,” “USA Today reports,” “New York Times,” “TN bill failed 20 to 13,” “theory not fact,” “1996 legislation,” “Pat Buchanan supports the bill,” “the Bible is believed.”
Underlinings: Lamb underscores quotations from letters and legal arguments/documents, details on media, politics, religion, impact of trial, education and the background/beliefs of central characters.
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Subject
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"Scopes, John Thomas--Trials, litigation, etc."
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"Evolution (Biology)--Study and teaching--Law and legislation--United States."
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Relation
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Original Booknotes interview
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Rights
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