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Scopes 'Monkey Trial' at 100: New book argues why it's still with us today

Historian and author Brenda Wineapple joins Morning Joe to discuss her new book 'Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation'.

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Trial of the century: Why 100 years later, the Scopes case still matters

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.

TIME on MSN · 1d

How Theater Helps Us Remember the Scopes Monkey Trial 100 Years Later

Hollywood didn’t ignore the play’s success either. In 1960, Inherit the Wind became a multiple Oscar-nominated film, featuring stars Spencer Tracy, Frederic March, and Gene Kelly. Three made-for-TV movies followed in 1965, 1968, and 1999 with impressive casts of their own.

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Tired of put-downs, Tennessee town corrects the record with play about the Scopes trial it hosted

A small town in Tennessee courted national publicity a century ago when it recruited a local teacher to challenge a state law ...

100 years after Scopes Monkey Trial, a new religious culture war emerges in Oklahoma

Oklahoma is forcing courts – as they did in Tennessee in 1925 – to wrestle with the question of how much religion is ...

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Scopes Trial – 100 years later

Scopes Monkey Trial got underway. WGN Radio brought it to the nation. This article talks about all that and quotes John Williams in a few places, including the ...

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100 years after Scopes ‘Monkey Trial,’ religion in public schools hits courts again

New state laws requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms are facing legal challenges.

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