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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 ...
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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On the 100th Anniversary of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial, Paducah Film Society screening “Inherit the Wind”
July 10 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial, when science and religion was put on trial in ...
In historic 'Monkey Town USA,' residents embrace the past and plan for the future
For a century, this small Tennessee town in Rhea County just north of Chattanooga has been known as “Monkey Town USA” in reference to the famous 1925 Scopes trial that pitted religion vs. evolution in ...
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This ‘Trial of the Century’ Is 100. Its Lessons Could Save the Democrats.
A hundred years later, many religious Americans in rural areas still feel that the cosmopolitan leaders of the Democratic Party look down on them.
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100 years after evolution went on trial, the Scopes case still reverberates
One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in ...