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 […]
Scopes "Monkey" Trial (1925)
Famous Trials By Professor Douglas O. Linder Home Scopes “Monkey” Trial (1925)5*
Famous Trials By Professor Douglas O. Linder Home Scopes “Monkey” Trial (1925) The early 1920s found social patterns in chaos. Traditionalists, the older Victorians, worried that everything valuable was ending. Younger modernists no longer asked whether society would approve of their behavior, only whether their behavior met the approval of their intellect. Intellectual experimentation flourished. […]