Viewing audience is history. 134 spies, assassins, martyrs, witches, famous trials in american. This is jenna. Big questions course. And we have a room full of largely non history majors from the sciences and business and other places who are taking a history course and the we are covering today is a trial that will be dubbed in the 20th century. The trial of the century the scopes trial and want to start our discussion by introducing you to this man. This is John Washington butler and he was a tennessee tobacco farmer who gets to the state legislature 1922. And as he it he was home at his Baptist Church and his preacher told story that he found very disturbing and it was the story of a local young woman who attended the university of tennessee and then was exposed to darwins teachings on evolution in a biology course. And she had been raised in a culture of faith and belief in the bible and, the preacher said she came home from college, an atheist and butler had three young boys who w
Okay. Welcome back to history. 134 spies, assassins, martyrs and witches, famous trials in American History at the university of maryland last class we did the first part of the scopes trial where we talked about the origins of the case and we spent a significant amount of time placing the case in the context of the time in an effort to explain why the case became so sensational, why a good portion of the United States in the world was focused on this trial. Certainly europe and part of the story was, although we think of the Roaring Twenties as this era of gatsbys parties and flappers and jazz and fun and a roaring economy, it was also a deeply divided nation between urban and rural. Its for the first time in 1920, the census announces more people live in cities than in the countryside and their status excited amongst farmers who had been kind of the core of American Life between people who wanted to cut off the ellis island era of immigration. The two arrive guys in ku klux klan that
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Suggest that it be a mother cannot serve ably in the legislature i used a poor choice of words to express what i know firsthand that raising children and working his top. Reached out to him for an on camera interview that he was not available, you can read both of their statements on fox 8. Comd. For the ohio epa, Agency Spokesman says that district officials and Chagrin Fallsst did nothing wrong and addressing a months old problem of lead in the Drinking Water at the village elementary school, Lorrie Taylor joins us with the latestjo. Affected posted on the ohio epa website said that there were possible high levels of lead at we t. Seeker in elementary school, l, despite the agency giving the couple months ago. Ny said that recommendation related to Drinking Water at the winter school, says that children and pregnant women should use bottled water to reduce leadad for cooking drinking and baby formula has been updated, says that the posting is intended to err on the side of caution. E
Out. I feel we have a chance to get kayla out. The familys heart wrenching story and the way they are honoring her legacy and the way she wrote from captivity. Another storm takes aim at millions in the south. Another arctic blast. Announcer from nbc news this is a special edition of today with todays oscar after party. Live from los angeles and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the split edition of today on a monday morning. Matt lauer in los angeles and savannah, tamron and natalie back in new york. The award for least sleep. Tamron wins it. She watched the whole thing. I cant imagine you have been asleep. I got two hours, you got awe how much did you get . I got about 45 minutes. He took a nap anyway. Im awake now. Hold on. This is our top story. We are talking about the stars at the oscar. A lot just getting home after celebrating and while the Academy Awards expected several expected winners, there were plenty of surprise