The Last Archive: Scopes Monkey Trial

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🗓️ 5 July 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

July 10, 1925. A group of Tennessee jurors is selected to judge the case of John T. Scopes, a high school science teacher. His offense? Teaching his students about evolution. Across the country, Americans are tuning in to hear science face off against religion in the eyes of the law. But as the trial unfolds, Scopes and his crime become a backdrop for a much bigger culture war, one that divides believers and skeptics and sows doubts that still exist today. This episode comes from the podcast The Last Archive, from Pushkin Industries. You can listen to more episodes of The Last Archive at http://podcasts.pushkin.fm/historythisweek.

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0:00.0	The History Channel, Original Podcast.
0:03.0	Hey history this week listeners, we're bringing you something a little different this week.
0:07.5	It's an episode from another podcast we think you'll like called The Last Archive from Pushkin Industries.
0:14.0	On the show, Harvard historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lapor
0:18.0	uncovers the secrets of the past the way it detectives might,
0:21.0	using archival tapes and documents, intrepid reporting, and radio drama reenactments.
0:27.0	This season investigates pervaders of doubt,
0:31.0	hoaxers, fraudsters, pseudo-scientists over the course of the 20th century.
0:36.0	This episode chronicles the 1925 Scopes Trial,
0:40.0	a landmark in the history of doubt.
0:43.0	As science and faith battled in the courtroom,
0:46.0	the nation also witnessed something else,
0:48.0	the beginnings of a culture war that's been waged ever since.
0:53.0	You can listen to The Last Archive wherever you get your podcasts.
0:56.0	Now on to the episode.
0:59.0	There's a place in our world where the known things go.
1:04.0	A quarter of the mind.
1:08.0	I haven't been down here in a while.
1:10.0	This good to be back.
1:12.0	Down here where the walls are lined with shelves, cluttered with proof.
1:17.0	Especially books.
1:21.0	Huh, on the origin of species by Charles Darwin.
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