In 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the unlikely setting for one of the 20th century's most contentious dramas: the Scopes trial and the debate over science, religion and their place in public education. This work assesses the state of the battle between creationism and evolution, and points the way to how it might be resolved.

A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder. In 1925, when the Detroit home of a Negro doctor, Ossian Sweet, was attacked by an angry white mob, one of the group was accidentally killed. Legendary attorney Clarence Darrow was brought into the fray; this is the story of the trial.

Offers an account of the murder of the young Atlanta factory worker Mary Phagan and the subsequent lynching of Leo Frank, the transplanted northern Jew who was her employer and accused killer. This book includes letters written by Jim Conley, who was the state's main witness against Frank.

Colleen Stan was a sweet-natured 20-year-old when she set out to hitchhike from her home in Washington to southern California. Seven years later, she emerged from hell, the victim of a bizarre and chilling crime.

In 1982, a 21 year-old cocktail waitress was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder. This work is an exploration of justice gone terribly awry.