A one page, typed petition to Governor Austin Peay in support of Tennessee's anti-evolution law. The letter is on the letterhead of the Sunday school teacher, J.W. Howard.
Letter to Governor Austin Peay (1923-1927) from Noel Gaines, a Kentucky citizen, praising Governor Peay and the Tennessee Legislature for the passage of the anti-evolution law (the Butler Act). He takes the Kenucky Legislature to task for not...
Broadsides; Announcements; Handbills; Fliers (printed matter); Flags; Military standards
Announcement of fund-raising fiddling and banjo picking contest to raise money for the Leonidas Polk Bivouac No. 3, and William Henry Trousdale Camp No. 495 of Confederate Veterans and for "indigent and decrepit Confederate Soldiers." There is...
House Resolution 161 introduced by Mr. Washington to aid and encourage the holding of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition at Nashville in the year 1896 and making an appropriation for it.
This free circular is subtitled, "A Letter for the Times." The author, George J. Jones, identifies himself as a scientist and an investigator. In this publication, Jones is countering the attacks directed at William Jennings Bryan for his...
Letter, written shortly after the end of the Scopes Trial, sent to former governor Malcolm R. Patterson by Nashville Tennessean managing editor and Governor Austin Peay advisor, Truman Alexander. Alexander sought to inform Patterson of William...
Caricatures; Evolution; Monkeys; Correspondence; Public speaking
Caricature of a politician addressing an audience of monkeys from a cracker box platform. The monkeys beg for food while the largest of them warns the others to "pay no attention to that boob, he thinks you can vote." Accompanying the caricature...
This two-sided, typed letter written by John Trotwood Moore to Seth K. Martin, an old Maury County friend living in Oakland, California, contains comments from Moore concerning the debate on evolutionary theory raging in Tennessee; on the eve of...
Index and Opinion from the Tennessee State Supreme Court case regarding the Scopes Trial of July 1925 questioning the teaching of evolution in public schools. The opinion, filed in January 1927, dismissed the case; on a technicality, adding...
Excerpt of a video interview with Sue K. Hicks in which he remembers William Jennings Bryan telling he and his brother, Herbert, that they would probably live long enough to see whether or not evolution is true.
Excerpt of a video interview with Sue K. Hicks in which he talks about how William Bryan Jennings, nephew of William Jennings Bryan, helped him get a position in Florida after the Scopes Trial was over.
Excerpt of a video interview with Sue K. Hicks in which he discusses the ramifications of the Scopes Trial on education and on the reputation of the state.
Excerpt of a video interview with Sue K. Hicks admitting that it was decided up front to try the case and that Scopes gave his permission to be part of it.
Photo postcard of the front entrance of Robinson's Drug Store. The postcard reads, "Where the Scopes Evolution Case Started. Robinson's Drug Store, Dayton, Tennessee."
