Today in History – The Scopes Trial & Social Studies Teachers
Today in 1925, a preliminary hearing began to determine if John Scopes, a Tennessee school teacher who had been charged with violating the Butler Act, should be remanded over for trial.
The Butler Act forbade teaching ” any theory that denies the story of the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals”.
The case would present the made for Hollywood showdown between Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan.
History and Science often intersect, and the ASSET Program offers a summer workshop at Cornell University for Social Studies Teachers to explore just this intersection.
Download this flyer for more info : Social Studies flyer
To apply for the workshop, download this application:2011_SS appl_long
Then come and enjoy a summer day at Cornell.