1998 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
Edward J. Larson
The Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes Trial and the battle over evolution and creation in America’s schools In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the twentieth century’s most contentious cou…