Shapiro, Adam R. (Author)
In Trying Biology, Adam R. Shapiro convincingly dispels many conventional assumptions about the 1925 Scopes monkey trial. Most view it as an event driven primarily by a conflict between science and religion. Countering this, Shapiro shows the importance of timing: the Scopes trial occurred at a crucial moment in the history of biology textbook publishing, education reform in Tennessee, and progressive school reform across the country. He places the trial in this broad context---alongside American Protestant antievolution sentiment---and in doing so sheds new light on the trial and the historical relationship of science and religion in America. For the first time we see how religious objections to evolution became a prevailing concern to the American textbook industry even before the Scopes trial began. Shapiro explores both the development of biology textbooks leading up to the trial and the ways in which the textbook industry created new books and presented them as responses to the trial. Today, the controversy continues over textbook warning labels, making Shapiro's study---particularly as it plays out in one of America's most famous trials---an original contribution to a timely discussion.
...MoreReview William Vance Trollinger (2015) Review of "Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 393-396).
Review Aaron J. Sickel (2014) Review of "Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools". Science Education (pp. 738-740).
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Review Lienesch, Michael (2014) Review of "Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 659-660).
Review Ostrander, Rick (2014) Review of "Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools". American Historical Review (pp. 543-544).
Review Larson, Edward J. (2014) Review of "Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools". Journal of American History (pp. 297-298).
Essay Review Weldon, Stephen P. (2014) Monkey Business. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (pp. 115-118).
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Tontonoz, Matthew;
(2008)
The Scopes Trial Revisited: Social Darwinism Versus Social Gospel
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Shapiro, Adam R.;
(2008)
Civic Biology and the Origin of the School Antievolution Movement
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Shapiro, Adam R.;
(2007)
Losing the Word: The Scopes Trial, Biology Textbooks and the Evolution ofBiblical Literalism
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Caudill, Edward;
Larson, Edward J.;
Mayshark, Jesse Fox;
(2000)
The Scopes Trial: A Photographic History
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Laats, Adam;
(2011)
Monkeys, Bibles, and the Little Red Schoolhouse: Atlanta's School Battles in the Scopes Era
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LaFollette, Marcel C.;
(2008)
Reframing Scopes: Journalists, Scientists, and Lost Photographs from the Trial of the Century
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Green, Lisa Anne;
(2012)
Science for Survival: The Modern Synthesis of Evolution and the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study
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Laats, Adam;
(2010)
Fundamentalism and Education in the Scopes Era: God, Darwin, and the Roots of America's Culture Wars
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Moran, Jeffrey P.;
(2002)
The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents
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Singham, Mano;
(2011)
God vs. Darwin: The War between Evolution and Creationism in the Classroom
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Nourse, Victoria F.;
(2008)
In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near Triumph of American Eugenics
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Clark, Constance Areson;
(2002)
Evolution for John Doe: Scientists, pictures and the public in the decade of the Scopes trial
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Larson, Edward J.;
(2009)
That the Scopes Trial Ended in Defeat for Antievolutionism
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Lynch, Michael;
(2006)
From Ruse to Farce
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Kruse, Jerrid W.;
(2010)
Historical Short Stories in the Post-Secondary Biology Classroom: Investigation of Instructor and Student Use and Views
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Levit, Inga;
Hoßfeld, Uwe;
Olsson, Lennart;
(2009)
Creationism in the Russian Educational Landscape
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Lewis, Anna;
(2008)
A Comparative Study of Six Decades of General Science Textbooks: Evaluating the Evolution of Science Content
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Magat, Richard;
(2006)
The Forgotten Roles of Two New York City Teachers in the Epic Scopes Trial
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Wolffram, Heather;
(2012)
“Trick,” “Manipulation,” and “Farce”: Albert Moll's Critique of Occultism
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Weikart, Richard;
(2013)
The Role of Darwinism in Nazi Racial Thought
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