Digital History Printable VersionJournalist H.L. Mencken’s Account of the Scopes Trial Digital History ID 1077Author: H. L. Mencken Date:1925Annotation: Widely known for his attacks on America’s Puritan tradition and its booboisie, H.L. Mencken was perhaps the most influential American journalist of the first half of the twentieth century and an ardent champion of such American […]