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Lectures in History

1925 Scopes Monkey Trial Part 2

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1696 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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University of Maryland history professor Michael Ross discussed the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial about teaching evolution and its cultural significance in 1920s America. This is the second of a two-part lecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This week on the Lectures and History podcast, the second of a two-part lecture, with University

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of Maryland history professor Michael Ross. He discusses the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, which was an

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American legal case from July 10th to July 21st, 1925. It involved a high school teacher,

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John T. Scopes, who was accused of violating

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Tennessee's Butler Act that made it illegal for teachers to teach human evolution in any state-funded

0:28.3

school. Hang tight, the lecture starts after this.

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