This week on the Lectures and History podcast, University of Maryland history professor Michael Ross

discusses the 1925 Scopes Monkey trial. The trial was an American legal case from July 10th to July 21st,

1925, in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act.

That act made it illegal for teachers to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.

The lecture discusses teaching evolution in 1920s America.

This is the first of a two-part lecture.

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