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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 ...

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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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