Tells the story of the 1925 trial that tested the constitutionality of the law that forbid the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools, and presents numerous primary source excerpts and photos.
Examines the life and times of Davy Crockett, born in Tennessee in 1786, discussing his youth in the frontier, his education and marriage, his role in the War of 1812, and his reputation as a frontiersman and politician.
Cornelius Suttree, having abandoned a life of privilege, takes up life as a river fisherman on a dilapidated houseboat near Knoxville, Tennessee, where he encounters an assortment of eccentrics and outcasts.
A slight error left Olympic diving-hopeful Bryce Graham in a five-year coma and now, at twenty-two, she must adjust to a world that went on without her and to visions that may or may not be real.
Upon graduating from high school in the tiny town of Starling, Tennessee, aspiring country singer Retta Lee Jones manages to get herself to Nashville, where, in spite of some bad luck and hard times, she tries to persevere in pursuing her dreams.
Examines the Scopes trial concerning the teaching of evolution in public schools, its outcome, and the implications for the continuing debate between evolutionists and creationists.
When her father's illness causes the family moves from Brazil to Tennessee to be near their Swiss relatives, eleven-year-old Elisa finds that her family's faith sustains them through a number of trials.