Books like The Scopes Monkey Trial

#1

Summer for the Gods The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion

Edward John Larson

Themes: Criminal Law • Legal History • Evolution

#2

The Blood of Emmett Till

Timothy B. Tyson

Themes: Legal History • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Life Sciences

#3

The Evolution of Ethics in America Standards Born of Crises

Laurence French

Themes: Criminal Law • Legal History • Life Sciences

#4

Creation & the Courts Eighty Years of Conflict in the Classroom and the Courtroom : with Never Before Published Eyewitness Testimony from the Scopes II Trial

Norman L. Geisler

Themes: Legal History • Evolution • Life Sciences

#5

University, Court, and Slave Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War

Alfred L. Brophy

Themes: Legal History • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local

#6

Everyday Justice A Legal Aid Story

Ashley Wiltshire

Themes: Legal History • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local

#7

Blood & Ink The Scandalous Jazz Age Double Murder that Hooked America on True Crime

Joe Pompeo

Themes: Criminal Law • Legal History • State & Local

#8

Alabama V. King Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial that Launched the Civil Rights Movement

Dan Abrams

Themes: Legal History • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local

#9

Rowdy Boundaries True Mississippi Tales from Natchez to Noxubee

James L. Robertson

Themes: Legal History • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local

#10

Inside Bush V. Gore

Charley Wells

Themes: Legal History • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local

#11

The Silencing of Ruby Mccollum Race, Class, and Gender in the South

Tammy D. Evans

Themes: Legal History • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local

#12

My City Was Gone One American Town’s Toxic Secret, Its Angry Band of Locals, and a $700 Million Day in Court

Dennis Love

Themes: Legal History • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local

#13

Emmett Till The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement

Devery S. Anderson

Themes: Legal History • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local

#14

Murder in Coweta County

Margaret Barnes

Themes: Legal History • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local

#15

The Freedom Schools Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement

Jon N. Hale

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local • 20th Century

#16

Who Killed Jane Stanford? A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University

Richard White

Themes: Criminal Law • State & Local • 20th Century

#17

The Punisher’s Brain The Evolution of Judge and Jury

Morris B. Hoffman

Themes: Criminal Law • Evolution • Life Sciences

#18

Whispers of Rebellion Narrating Gabriel’s Conspiracy

Michael L. Nicholls

Themes: Criminal Law • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local

#19

The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson A Battle for Racial Justice at the Dawn of the Civil Rights Era

Chris Joyner

Themes: Criminal Law • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local

#20

Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America An Old Republican in King Andrew’s Court

William S. Belko

Themes: Legal History • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local

#21

Charleston’s Trial Jim Crow Justice

Daniel J. Crooks (Jr.)

Themes: Legal History • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local

#22

The Last Battle of the Civil War United States versus Lee, 1861–1883

Anthony J. Gaughan

Themes: Legal History • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local

#23

Tales from Kentucky Lawyers

William Lynwood Montell

Themes: Legal History • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local

#24

Full Court Press How Pat Summitt, a High School Basketball Player, and a Legal Team Changed the Game

Bill Haltom

Themes: Legal History • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local