Below are questions to think about as you work on sources for research.

I. Bibliographical sources

In the next section, you will find a bibliography of sources for a paper on the Scopes Trial. Please analyze those citations and think about how you would characterize each one. All should be in the same style. I'm asking you to use University of Chicago author-date style. Here are some questions to guide you:

- What's right and what's wrong about the citations here? Are there any that would not be suitable in the final paper? Why? Are there some that might be useful at the outset but not later?
- Which ones are obviously peer reviewed? Which ones are not? Which are harder to figure out? Which ones would be considered primary and which secondary sources?
- If the subject of the paper were changed slightly, would you understanding of their suitability for a course paper change? In other words, how might a different research subject make it possible to include sources that you otherwise would not. Would it change how you classify it as primary or secondary?

Bibliography

Books

Lienesch, Michael. 2007. In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Lienesch, M. In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement. (University of North Carolina Press, 2007).
Moran, J. P. (2003). Reading Race into the Scopes Trial: African American Elites, Science, and Fundamentalism. The Journal of American History, 90(3), 891–911. JSTOR. https://doi.org/10.2307/3660880
Shapiro, Adam R. Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2013.

Chapters in edited books

Barker, Eileen. 1981. “In the Beginning: The Battle of Creationist Science Against Evolutionism.” In On the Margins of Science: The Social Construction of Rejected Knowledge, edited by Roy Wallis, 179–200. Keele, U.K.: University of Keele.
James, Frank A. J. L. 1985. “The Creation of a Victorian Myth: The Historiography of Spectroscopy.” In History of Science.
Edward B. Davis, 2008. “Fundamentalist Cartoons, Modernist Pamphlets, and the Religious Image of Science in the Scopes Era.” In Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America, 175–98. University of Wisconsin Press.

Journal articles

Moran, Jeffrey P. “Reading Race into the Scopes Trial: African American Elites, Science, and Fundamentalism.” The Journal of American History 90, no. 3 (2003): 891–911. https://doi.org/10.2307/3660880.
Davis, Edward B. 2005. “Science and Religious Fundamentalism in the 1920s: Religious Pamphlets by Leading Scientists of the Scopes Era Provide Insight into Public Debates about Science and Religion.” American Scientist 93 (3): 253–60.
Robinson, S. R. A Crusader and an Advocate: The Black Press, the Scopes Trial, and Educational Progress. The Journal of Negro Education 87, 5–21 (2018).

Websites

http://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-22-2-a-the-scopes-trial-who-decides-what-gets-taught-in-the-classroom
https://ou-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=TN_jstor_archive_1510.2307%2F4450553&context=PC&vid=OUNEW&lang=en_US&search_scope=default_scope&adaptor=primo_central_multiple_fe&tab=default_tab&query=any,contains,scopes%20trial%20creationism&sortby=rank&facet=rtype,exclude,books
“A Statue of Clarence Darrow Outside the Scopes Monkey Trial Courthouse Is Angering Some Christians.” n.d. Friendly Atheist (blog). Accessed March 6, 2019. https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2017/05/11/a-statue-of-clarence-darrow-outside-the-scopes-monkey-trial-courthouse-is-angering-some-christians/.
“John Scopes, Creationist?” n.d. Answers in Genesis. Accessed March 6, 2019. https://answersingenesis.org/scopes-trial/john-scopes-creationist/.
“Scopes Trial.” 2019. In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scopes_Trial&oldid=885599344.

II. Finding aids

Look again at the Research Resources for History of Science, where you will find many different resources listed. Familiarize yourself with the eight items at the top of the page in the Links to most useful resources section. Think about which ones would be best for different kinds of searches. Can you find at least one possible source for your paper in each of those finding aids?

III. Make sure your abstract is up

Please go to this site and make sure your abstract is in one of the groups listed. If not, please send me a note before class: Folder with Topic Abstracts.