Today is Monday, July 21, the 202nd day of 2025. There are 163 days left in the year. Today in history: On July 21, 1925, the so-called ‘Monkey...
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Your Tennessee State Museum is home to quite a few interesting things to do and see this summer. Now on exhibit is “Eight Days in Dayton” open through October 12, 2025. Be sure to also check out the online portion of the exhibition, which features the majority of the TSM Scopes Collection artifacts. “Eight Days in Dayton: 100 Years of the Scopes Trial,” is a temporary display in the Museum Corridor Gallery on the second floor featuring significant artifacts from the Museum’s collection related to the trial. The Scopes Evolution Trial, formally “The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes,” took place in Dayton, Tennessee as a challenge to the Butler Act, a law that made the teaching of...
Today is Monday, July 21, the 202nd day of 2025. There are 163 days left in the year. Today in history: On July 21, 1925, the so-called ‘Monkey...
Today is Monday, July 21, the 202nd day of 2025. There are 163 days left in the year. Today in history: On July 21, 1925, the so-called ‘Monkey...
This month, America commemorates the 100th anniversary of a landmark cultural event that taught us about the dangers of censorship. July of 1925...
This month, America commemorates the 100th anniversary of a landmark cultural event that taught us about the dangers of censorship. July of 1925...
Today I’m remembering what Lela Scopes told me about her famous brother for my Paducah Sun story going on 46 years ago.She said before John Thomas...
A small town in eastern Tennessee courted national publicity and attention a century ago when local leaders planned a test trial over the teaching of...
A small town in eastern Tennessee courted national publicity and attention a century ago when local leaders planned a test trial over the teaching of...
NPR’s Scott Detrow speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ed Larson, about the legacy of the Scopes Trial and the teaching of evolution in...
NPR’s Scott Detrow speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ed Larson, about the legacy of the Scopes Trial and the teaching of evolution in...
In 1925, a Tennessee battle over teaching evolution in schools gripped the US and, as festivities commemorate the chaos, the case remains grimly...