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Scopes Trial

Butler Act The theory of evolution, as developed by Charles Darwin and others, was a controversial concept in many quarters, even into the 20th century. Concerted anti-evolutionist efforts in Tennessee succeeded when in 1925, the Tennessee House of Representatives was offered a bill by John W. Butler that made teaching evolution a misdemeanor. The so-called […]

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Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington’s Parents and Early Life Booker Taliaferro Washington was born on April 5, 1856 in a hut in Franklin County, Virginia. His mother was a cook for the plantation’s owner. His father, a white man, was unknown to Washington. At the close of the Civil War, all the enslaved people owned by James […]

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Pioneering African American scientist George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver, born into slavery, was a scientist and inventor who developed hundreds of products.

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Theodore Roosevelt, 1905. (Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Teddy Roosevelt’s Bold (But Doomed) Battle to Change American Spelling

The 26th president found that simplifying the language was anything but simple.

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1961 Disney lunch box. (Credit: The Smithsonian Institute National Museum of American History)

Nine of the Most Collectible School Lunch Boxes, 1935 to Now

Which one was your favorite?

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In Early 1800s American Classrooms, Students Governed Themselves

In Early 1800s American Classrooms, Students Governed Themselves

That hall monitor used to be much more powerful.

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Stereo card of a singing school in a church in Winchendon, MA in the late 1800s

The Hottest Social Scene in the 19th-Century American South

Singing schools are obsolete now, but they provided a rare chance to loosen up, socialize and learn something about music

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