The Immediate Ripple: How the Scopes Trial Shook American Society
The Trial as a Media Spectacle and its Impression The Press and Public Consideration The humid Tennessee air hung heavy over Dayton in the summertime of 1925. The city, often a quiet backwater, buzzed with an unprecedented vitality. Newspapers blared headlines, reporters from throughout the nation jostled for place, and a crowd, a veritable mob … Read more
