Excerpts from the Scopes trial transcripts have been made available by the University of Missouri -- Kansas City School of Law. They are available here. [External links will open in a new window.]

For more information on the case, you may want to read or watch any of the following:

Larson, Edward J. Summer of the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion. New York: Basic Books, 1997.

Allen, Frederick Lewis. Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the Nineteen Twenties. New York: Harper, 1959.

Applebome, Peter. "70 Years After Scopes Trial, Creation Debate Lives." New York Times. March 10, 1996.

de Camp, L. Sprague. The Great Monkey Trial. Garden City: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1968.

Ginger, Ray. Six Days or Forever? London: Oxford University Press, 1958.

Grebstein, Sheldon Norman, ed. Monkey Trial. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960.

Inherit the Wind. Dir. Stanley Kramer. MGM/UA, 1960.

Scopes, John T. Center of the Storm. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967.

Tompkins, Jerry R., ed. D-Days at Dayton. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1965.

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