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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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, ...
The Christian Science Monitor5d
Remembering Scopes: How 100-year-old ‘Monkey Trial’ helped shape evangelical Christianity
During the Scopes Trial over teaching evolution in public school, modern science clashed with religion. Its effects helped ...
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 ...
University of Chicago News1d
The Scopes ‘Monkey Trial’: 100 years later
One hundred years ago, on July 10, 1925, the trial of John T. Scopes began.
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.
Religion News Service on MSN2d
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 ...
A century later, the 'Monkey Trial' is more relevant than ever
One hundred years ago, a public school teacher was put on trial for teaching the theory of evolution. The Scopes Monkey Trial ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education1d
100 Years Ago, the Scopes Monkey Trial Discovered Academic Freedom
On July 10, 1925, a 24-year-old high-school teacher named John Scopes was put on trial in Dayton, Tennessee for the crime of ...
Opinion
The American Spectator4hOpinion
100 Years After the Scopes Trial, Public Education Still Gets It Wrong
One hundred years ago, in Dayton, Tennessee, the Scopes “Monkey Trial” was underway, with the battle for children’s public education in the balance. This case has become infamous in American legal ...