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  1. American Experience: Monkey Trial- "Profiles the all-out duel between science and religion debated by Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, and the media circus which surrounded the trial."
  2. Monkeying with the Scopes "Monkey" Trial- by Dr. David N. Menton, Ph.D.
  3. Scopes Monkey Trial- A look into the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925, including pictures, cartoons, and research.
  4. Scopes Trial Home Page- "The early 1920's found social patterns in chaos. Traditionalists, the older Victorians, worried that everything valuable was ending. Younger modernists no longer asked whether society would approve of their behavior, only whether their behavior met the approval of their intellect. Intellectual experimentation flourished."
  5. Tennesse versus John Scopes-Website describing this landmark decision.
  6. The Tennessee Monkey Trial- An investigation into one of the most thoroughly misrepresented events in modern history - the trial of Thomas J. Scopes.
  7. The Scopes "Monkey Trial," or "A 1925 Media Circus"- "Rationalists challenge a Tennessee law forbidding the teaching of evolution"

 


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