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High school teacher John Scopes (center), in 1925 became the first person charged for violating a Tennessee law making it illegal for anyone in a state-supported school to teach theories of evolution.
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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.
A century ago today, America fixed its attention on a Dayton courthouse. Tennessee was prosecuting John T. Scopes for violating a 1925 law forbidding public schools and universities to teach the ...
The 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial” in Tennessee, where a teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution, continues to influence debates on religion in public schools. The trial highlighted tensions ...
The legacy of the Scopes trial lies not in the victory of one worldview over another but in the ongoing, often contentious, conversation about science, faith, education, and national identity we’re ...
A hundred years later, many religious Americans in rural areas still feel that the cosmopolitan leaders of the Democratic Party look down on them.
100 years ago, the Scopes trial gripped the nation, and here we go again Chicago’s Clarence Darrow battled the forces of religion that would dictate public education. A century later, the fight ...
It happened exactly one hundred years ago this month. And the gavel has still not completely come down.
One hundred years after the Scopes trial, the concept of parental rights continues to fuel curriculum battles – from book bans to LGBTQ+ censorship – in school boards and state legislatures ...
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