| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America: Scopes—The Battle over America's Soul. Dir. and prod. by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner. History Channel, 2006. 60 mins. (A&E Home Video, P.O. Box 2284, South Burlington, VT 05407; 888-423-1212; http://www.store.aetv.com/)

Colorful trials make great teaching opportunities: They act as lenses magnifying key preoccupations of their historical moments. The 1925 Scopes evolution trial came at an especially complicated moment. And the trial became visible—and audible—in photographs and films, on radio, in cartoons, even in songs. A story with dizzying narrative momentum, it was also pivotal in the history of challenges to school curricula. We have needed, therefore, historiographic corrections, and in recent years we have enjoyed excellent ones. The makers of this documentary film have incorporated the newer scholarship on the trial into Scopes, with appealing results.

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