Professor Ed Larson Presents "The Origins, History, and Mythology of the 1925 Scopes Trial" -- University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Professor Edward J. Larson presented "The Origins, History, and Mythology of the 1925 Scopes Trial" for the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Rondel V. Davidson Endowed Lecture.  The lecture commemorated the 100th anniversary of the case State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes. 

From the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley:

On October 28, join us for this year's Rondel V. Davidson Endowed Lecture given by Dr. Edward Larson, Pulitzer Prize winner and University Professor of History and the Hugh and Hazel Darling Chair in Law at Pepperdine University.

One hundred years is a long time in politics, less so in science, and even less so in religion. 2025 marks 100 years since the best-known intersection of those three forces in American society: the legendary 1925 trial of John Scopes for teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school. The lecture examines the origins, strange history, and enduring mythology surrounding that seminal episode that continues to resonate in American life.