A modern analysis of the Scopes "Monkey Trial" in July, 1925, in which public school teacher John T. Scopes was convicted of violating a Tennessee state law prohibiting the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution. Scopes was later released and the law was repealed in 1967. Winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for history.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Larsons new book presents a masterful and revelatory account of the titanic election battle that had been so momentous to the countrys future that Thomas Jefferson had called it Americas second revolution. 16 pages of b&w photographs.
""I often said before starting, that I had no doubt I should frequently repent of the whole undertaking."" So wrote Charles Darwin aboard "The Beagle," bound for the Galapagos Islands and what would arguably become the greatest and most controversial discovery in scientific history. But the theory of evolution did not spring full-blown from the ...
In the first book to explore the theory and practice of eugenics in the American South, Edward J. Larson shows how the quest for "strong bloodlines" expressed itself in state laws and public policies from the Progressive Era through World War II. Larson shows how the seemingly broad-based eugenics movement was in fact a series of distinct ...
This book serves as an essential primer to Creation versus evolution. Few issues besides evolution have so strained Americans' professed tradition of tolerance. Few historians besides Pulitzer Prize winner Edward J. Larson have so perceptively chronicled evolution's divisive presence on the American scene. This slim volume reviews the key aspects, ...
Since the day that Darwin set foot there in 1835 and saw nature literally at work, the Galapagos Islands have been the seedbed to 150 years of evolutionary research. Larson, author of SUMMER FOR THE GODS, relays the history of these enchanted islands, their role in scientific study and politics, their ecosystems, and their attraction for tourists.
A vivid and very human story of the Galpagos Islands-the key locale of every major turning point in evolutionary theory-from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Summer for the Gods.. More than any other place on Earth, the Galpagos Islands are the workshop of evolution. Isolated and desolate, they were largely overlooked by early explorers ...
Trial and Error traces the coverage or lack thereof, of evolution in textbooks used in American public schools from the mid-1800s to the present. While the teaching of Darwinian evolution was common and not controversial in the late 19th century and into the early 20th century, the debates between evolutionists and creationists, those who argue ...
Fueled by controversies surrounding right-to-die activists, the debate over euthanasia occupies central stage in today's social arena. This book attempts a comprehensive consideration of its historical, legal, ethical, and theological aspects.r
The debate over teaching evolution in the public schools remains one of the most emotionally charged controversies in twentieth-century America. This third edition of Edward J. Larson's highly acclaimed study - which ranges from before the Scopes trial of 1925 to the creationism disputes of the 1980's - offers the first comprehensive account of ...
The most comprehensive collection in print of the words and writings of the great American lawyer, writer, and social critic Clarence Darrow is edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Larson and ethicist Marshall.
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Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
