Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion Audiobook (Free)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes Trial and the battle over evolution and creation in America’s schools

In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the twentieth century’s most contentious courtroom dramas, pitting William Jennings Bryan and the anti-Darwinists against a teacher named John Scopes, symbolized by Clarence Darrow as well as the ACLU, within a famous debate over science, religion, and their place in public education. That trial marked the beginning of a fight that continues to this day-in towns and states throughout the country.

Edward Larson’s traditional Summer season for the Gods — champion of the Pulitzer Award in History — may be the one most authoritative accounts of this pivotal event. An afterword assesses the state of the fight between creationism and development, and points the best way to how it might potentially be solved.