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If you grew up in the United States, think back to middle school.

I bet you don't remember a lot of the American history you learned then, but you probably recall some of the top line catchphrases. No taxation without representation, the

emancipation Proclamation,

Manifest Destiny, and then there's this one, which you remember probably only because of its

funny name, the Scopes Monkey Trial. Of course, there were no monkeys on trial. Monkeys had nothing

to do with it, except as a mocking metaphor for the maturing science of evolution.

Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, which meant by the time of the

Scopes trial in 1925, evolution was a 66-year-old idea. It wasn't new, but it was still controversial.

Why? The science itself, even before the discovery of DNA, was pretty settled.

Instead, the great importance of the Scopes' monkey trial was cultural, was sociological,

was political, was regional, was religious, and it was personal.

It was a great clash between ideas, between ideologies, and between

ideologues. On today's Saturday matinee, we refreshed your memory on what the Scopes Monkey

trial was and why it matters with an episode from one of my other podcasts, American History

Tellers. I hope you enjoy. While you're listening, be sure to search for and follow American

History Tellers. We put a link in the show notes to make it easy for you.

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