Sample Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

Primary Sources

Mencken, H.L. “Among the Believers.” Found in Our Nation’s Archive: The History of the United States in Documents. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal, 1999. H.L. Mencken was a popular columnist in Baltimore during the 1920s. He wrote this piece as a satirical look at the trial and all the hoopla that surrounded it.

Secondary Sources

Linder, Douglas O. State v. John Scopes (“The Monkey Trial”). 22 January 2008.

<http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/project/ftrials/scopes/evolut.htm>. This website really focused on the media circus that surrounded the Scopes Trial. It emphasized that the trial was more about the conflict between social and intellectual values in our country. I found this very helpful in writing the section on conflict in my paper.

Muraskin, Roslyn, and Shelly Feuer Domash. Crimes and the Media: Headlines versus Reality. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007.

This book looked at many famous trials and the impact the media has on influencing the outcome as perceived by the general public. It was great for the compromise section of my research.

Nardo, Don. The Scopes Trial. San Diego: Lucent Books, 1997. Since this entire book was dedicated to the Scopes Trial, it provided me with a ton of information and made contributions to all sections of the paper.

Stonebarger, Bill. The Story of Evolution. [Videotape.] Madison, WI: Hawkhill Video, 1992. This video really helped me understand the difference between Creationism and evolution. There was some information on the Scopes Trial, but it was most background information.

Tierney, Kevin. “Scopes Trial.” World Book Online Reference Center. 2008. [Goldenview Library.] 22 Jan. 2008 <http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Article?id=ar496380>. This encyclopedia article helped me formulate my outline. It was short, but it gave me a number of key words that guided my research.