This Week in History...

March 13, 1935:

Tennessee

In one defining act, a Southern state took a large step backward, proving that ignorance can happen en masse. Tennessee, on this day, officially outlawed the teaching of evolution, fueling the “Scopes Monkey Trial.”

March 15, 44:

Rome, Italy

Beware the Ides of March. Julius Caesar, emperor of Rome, was stabbed to death by a group of Senators, including his friend, Brutus—a betrayal immortalized by the words of Shakespeare in Julius Caesar, “Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!”