Chicago Jewish Historical Society

Description

The Society has as its purpose the discovery, preservation and dissemination of information concerning the Jewish experience in the Chicago area. The Society seeks out, collects, and preserves written, spoken, and photographic records, in close cooperation with the Chicago Jewish Archives, Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies. The Society publishes historical information, holds public meetings at which various aspects of Chicago Jewish history are treated, mounts appropriate exhibits, and offers tours of Jewish historical sites.

Though the Society does not have a museum, it does offer lectures and tours of Jewish historic sites in Chicago.

Organization, without a historic site base of its own. May still be worth including, though?

Clarence Darrow, William Jennings Bryan, and the Scopes Trial

Description

Professor Charles Postel reviews the lives of lawyers Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) and William Jennings Bryan (1860–1925) and their involvement as adversaries in the 1925 legal case Scopes v. State, in which a school teacher was found guilty of violating a Tennessee law prohibiting the teaching of evolution in public schools.

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Religion and American Character

Description

Professor David Tucker discusses the role of religion in the founding of the United States, its views by the Founding Fathers, and historical perceptions of religion and its relationship with the ideal American citizen and government. He examines the temperance movement and Abraham Lincoln's response to it.