Artifact of the Week — July 23, 2020

Posted by on July 23, 2020
Picture of William Jennings Bryan
Picture of William Jennings Bryan

Three-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan argued for the prosecution during the Scopes Trial in Tennessee in July of 1925.  Bryan visited Batesville, AR in 1910. 

This image is a snapshot from OIRM’s newest exhibit Our Voices, Our Votes, created to accompany Voices and Votes:  Democracy in America which is scheduled for future display.  These exhibits are made possible by Museum on Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and the Arkansas Humanities Council.

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