Resources Referenced in the Event

• Slide Deck
• Religion Matters 
• Religion and Education Collaborative 
• Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Unit Plan: Why is the Scopes Trial Important to Public Education Today?
• Religion Matters: Classroom Resources for the Scopes Trial
  
• “Mapping the Field of K-12 Religious Literacy Education: A Working Report,” Religion and Education, 2025.

Additional Resources on the Scopes Trial

• Adams, Noah. “Timeline: Remembering the Scopes Monkey Trial.” National Public Radio (blog), July 5, 2005. https://www.npr.org/2005/07/05/4723956/timeline-remembering-the-scopes-monkey-trial.
• America in Class, ed. “Religion and Science in the 1920s: Collected Commentary.” America in Class, 2012. https://americainclass.org/sources/becomingmodern/divisions/text5/colcommentaryreligion.pdf.
• American Experience, ed. “American Experience: The Scopes Monkey Trial.” American Experience, May 4, 2018. https://www.pbs.org/video/scopes-monkey-trial-v9oaxa/.
• Bomboy, Scott. “The Scopes Monkey Trial and the Constitution.” Web log. National Constitution Center (blog), July 21, 2018. https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-scopes-monkey-trial-and-the-constitution.
• Caudill, Edward, Edward Larson, and Jesse Fox Mayshark. The Scopes Trial: A Photographic History. Knoxville, TN: Univ. of Tennessee Pr, 2000.
• Cole, Fay-Cooper. “50 Years Ago: A Witness at the Scopes Trial.” Scientific American, January 2009.
• Cutlip, Kimbra. “The Scopes Trial Redefined Science Journalism and Shaped It to What It Is Today.” Smithsonian Magazine, July 2015.
• Darrow, Clarence, and William Jennings Bryan. The Transcript of the Scopes Monkey Trial: Complete and Unabridged. Edited by Anthony Horvath. Greenwood, WI: Suzeteo Enterprises, 2018.
• Darrow, Clarence. “The Scopes Trial (1925).” The Clarence Darrow Digital Collection. Accessed December 30, 2024. https://librarycollections.law.umn.edu/darrow/trials_details.php?id=7.
• Davis, Watson. Tennessee vs. John Scopes “Monkey Trial”: Outdoor trial showing William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow, Dayton, Tennessee. Photograph. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7091, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2007-0124, July 20, 1925. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7091, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2007-0124
• Greenberg, David. “The Legend of the Scopes Trial.” Slate, September 8, 2005.
• Harding, Susan. “Representing Fundamentalism: The Problem of the Repugnant Cultural Other.” Social Research, Vol. 58, No. 2 (Summer 1991), 373–393. New York: The New School, 1991.
• Haynes, Charles C., Sam Chaltain, and Susan M. Glisson. First Freedoms: A Documentary History of First Amendment Rights in America. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. 
• Historical Thinking Matters. “Scopes Trial.” Historical thinking matters: Scopes Trial, 2008. https://historicalthinkingmatters.org/scopestrial/index.html
• La Follette, Marcel Chotkowski. Reframing Scopes: Journalists, Scientists, and Lost Photographs from the Trial of the Century. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2008.
• Larson, Edward J. Summer of the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over Science and Religion. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1997.
• Lawrence, Jerome, and Robert Edwin Lee. Inherit the Wind. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 2003. 
• Lienesch, Michael. In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement. Chapel Hill, N.C, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
• Levy, Debbie. A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Trial, the Original Fight Over Science in Schools. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 2025. 
• Luders-Manuel, Shannon. “How African Americans Supported Evolution in the 1925 Scopes Trial.” JSTOR Daily (blog). JSTOR, August 17, 2017. https://daily.jstor.org/how-african-americans-supported-evolution-in-the-1925-scopes-trial/.
• Marsden, George. “The Effects of the Fundamentalist/Modernist Split.” Essay. In Understanding and Teaching Religion in US History Edited by Karen J. Johnson and Jonathan M. Yeager, edited by Karen  J. Johnson and Jonathan  M. Yeager. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2024.
• Moore, Randy, and Susan E. Brooks. The Scopes Trial: An Encyclopedic History. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2023.
• Moore, Randy. The Scopes “Monkey Trial”: America’s Most Famous Trial and its Ongoing Legacy. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger: ABC-CLIO, 2023.
• Moran, Jeffrey P. The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s, Macmillan Learning, 2021.
• Raising Doubts About Evolution… in Science Class. YouTube. Retro Report, 2018. https://youtu.be/Fkzpx3wSSFs?si=jKHx0x01tpSfWpDP.
• Rhea County Heritage and Scopes Trial Museum. Accessed December 30, 2024. https://www.rheacountyheritage.com/.
• Sanchez, Anita. Monkey trial: John Scopes and the Battle Over Teaching Evolution. New York, NY: Clarion Books, 2023.
• Scopes Monkey – Rare Footage of the “Trial of the Century” . YouTube. The History Channel, 2018. https://youtu.be/mJoZrJknJJE?si=ZFzkwMmrK02cCNa6.
• “The Scopes Trial.” Digital Public Library of America. Accessed December 30, 2024. https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/the-scopes-trial.
• “Scopes Trial: Inherit the Wind & Butler Act.” History. Accessed December 30, 2024. https://www.history.com/topics/1920s/scopes-trial.
• “The Scopes ‘Monkey’ Trial.” Tennessee Virtual Archive. Accessed December 30, 2024. https://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/customizations/global/pages/collections/scopes/scopes.html.
• Sewell, Dennis. “The Scopes Monkey Trial Was about Racism, Not God.” UnHerd (blog), November 1, 2019. https://unherd.com/2019/11/americas-great-victory-for-science-and-scientific-racism/.\
• Small, Robert T. “‘Friendly Trial’ Become Bitter.” The Evening Star. July 14, 1925.
• Shapiro, Adam R. Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
• “State v. John Scopes (‘The Monkey Trial’): An Account.” University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. Accessed December 30, 2024. https://famous-trials.com/scopesmonkey/2127-home.
• Tennessee General Assembly. “Butler Act.” Tennessee Virtual Archive (TeVA), March 21, 1925. https://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/scopes/id/168/.
• This Man Was Tried in Tennessee for Teaching Evolution. YouTube. Smithsonian Channel, 2019. https://youtu.be/uWMkJ8IOHBU?si=_jI71QEAMpeR-kd9.
• Wacker, Grant, and Christopher Armstrong. “The Scope Trial.” The Scopes Trial, the twentieth century, Divining America: Religion in American History, National Humanities Center. Accessed December 30, 2024. https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/twenty/tkeyinfo/tscopes.htm.
• Watson, and Dunn. “Senate Bill 893 by Watson House Bill 368 by Dunn An …” Tennessee General Assembly, 2012. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/bills/107/bill/hb0368.pdf.
• Wineapple, Brenda. Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial that Riveted a Nation. New York, NY: Random House, 2024.