Website Spotlight: Scopes Trial

Website URL: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm

I recommend you begin your enjoyment of this website by reading Douglas Linder's overview essay. [middle of the home screen, underneath the picture]

Each of the websites in this "Famous Trials" series has standard sections on the left sidebar labelled (more or less) as follows:

A. Chronology
B. Biographies/Key Figures
C. Selected Images
D. Excerpts from trial transcripts/Summary of evidence
E. Bibliography and Links

Follow your interests in deciding what parts of this main material to use.

Going beyond these normal categories, I myself found the following items (on the left sidebar) particularly intriguing:

Genesis Stories
Observer's Account
Dayton, Tennessee
Trial Pictures and Cartoons
The Evolution Controversy (this has a ton of material)
John Scopes Reflects (40 years after the trial)
Hell and the High Schools
Trial Jeopardy--could be fun to play with your class.


On my Learning Professor wiki, this website fits within the following U.S.History survey course module:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/The+1920s

For reviews of the Famous Trials site itself, see the following:

1. History Matters
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4908/

2. TeachingHistory.org (National History Education Clearinghouse)
http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/website-reviews/14636