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The Scopes "Monkey trial" in 1925 in Tennessee wasn't supposed to be about Genesis versus Darwin, but that's the way it ...
Chicago's Clarence Darrow battled the forces of religion that would dictate public education. A century later, the fight ...
Tensions between religion and science erupted in a hot and humid courtroom in Dayton, Tenn., 100 years ago this month.
A small town in Tennessee courted national publicity a century ago when it recruited a local teacher to challenge a state law ...
The setting for the “Trial of the Century” was the small county-seat town of Dayton, 40 miles north of Chattanooga. Better ...
A hundred years later, many religious Americans in rural areas still feel that the cosmopolitan leaders of the Democratic ...
As the famous Scopes trial, a landmark case out of Dayton, Tennessee, celebrates its centennial anniversary, themes of the case continue to be felt today.
Dayton, Tennessee was the center of the world's attention.A biology teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching Ch ...
When a high-school teacher in Tennessee agreed to be prosecuted for teaching evolution, The New Yorker, still in its first ...
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The Scopes 'Monkey Trial' has not adjourned
It is the story of Bertram Cates (John Scopes), a young biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who is arrested and stands ...
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