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Relates the true story of Davy Crockett, one of the Old West's outstanding hunters, frontiersmen, and legislators.

Examines the 1925 trial of John Scopes who was charged with violating a law against teaching evolution in public schools in Tennessee, introduces some of the people involved in the sensational case, and discusses the lasting legacy of the guilty verdict.

Recounts the events surrounding the 1968 public-employee strike in Memphis that paralyzed the city and led to a complete overhaul of the city's plantation mentality that set the predominately African-American public workers apart from their upper-class white counterparts.

Discusses one of the most famous court cases in history, in which a Tennessee high school teacher was put on trial for teaching evolution.

Friendless Penny and her neglectful parents leave their privileged life in the city for a ramshackle property in Thrush Junction, Tennessee.

Picture book presents the life story of frontiersman Davy Crockett and some of the legends told about him after his death at the Alamo.

A novel in free verse poems, in which visitors, spectators, and residents of Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925 describe the Scopes "monkey trial" and its effects on that small town and its citizens.

Presents the story of a group of middle school students from Whitwell, Tennessee who began a project of collecting six million paper clips and building a memorial to the Jews who were victims of the Nazi Holocaust of World War Two.

Examines the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" trial which took place in Dayton, Ohio when science teacher John Scopes was charged with teaching evolution in the public school, his defense by Clarence Darrow, and the effect of the trial on society and public education.

Explains how to draw some of Tennessee's sights and symbols, including the state seal, the official flower, and Nashville's Union Station.