History 2010/2020- American History I & II: Part 2 (1900-1930)

This article, published by the East Tennessee Historical Society, discusses young Representative Harry Burn's tie-breaking vote which made Tennessee the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment.

In 1925, Tennessee passed a law forbidding the teaching of evolution in any school or college in Tennessee supported by public funds. Governor Austin Peay signed the Bill on March 23, with the remark that it represented "a distinct protest against an irreligious tendency to exalt so-called science and deny the Bible in some schools and quarters." John T. Scopes, a youthful teacher of biology in the High School at Dayton, Tennessee, announced that as he had been hired to teach "modern science" he would continue conscientiously to do so, whereupon he was arrested on May 5, charged with violating the State law.

Lizzie Crozier French was the organizer of the Knoxville Equal Suffrage Association, president of the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association and the Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs, and state chair of the National Woman’s Party.

Anne Dallas Dudley was a state and national leader in the women's suffrage movement.

Tennessee suffragist, temperance activist, publisher, and author Elizabeth Avery Meriwether was born in Bolivar on January 19, 1824.

Josephine A. Pearson was a leader of the anti-suffrage movement in Tennessee during the 1920 fight for ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.

Mass death changed how we think about illness, and government’s role in treating it.

Scroll to the bottom of the page for 1918 flu articles. The case studies examine outbreaks ranging from the ancient world to the present, including: two plagues in the Greco-Roman world, smallpox and other epidemics among indigenous people in North America, African Americans and the 1793 yellow fever Philadelphia epidemic, the 1918-1919 Spanish influenza, and the HIV-AIDS epidemic. Each presentation evaluates the science behind particular microbes and illnesses, and illuminates the historical context, the impact on society, parallels to Covid-19, while providing additional resources for further study.