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The law books record it as State of Tennessee v. John T. Scopes. History remembers it as the “ Monkey Trial .” The case ...
A century after the Scopes Monkey Trial, North Carolina has crafted legislation resurrecting that fight under a new name. | ...
Oklahoma is forcing courts – as they did in Tennessee in 1925 – to wrestle with the question of how much religion is ...
A century ago today, America fixed its attention on a Dayton courthouse. Tennessee was prosecuting John T. Scopes for ...
For a century, this small Tennessee town in Rhea County just north of Chattanooga has been known as “Monkey Town USA” in ...
During the Scopes Trial over teaching evolution in public school, modern science clashed with religion. Its effects helped ...
A staged legal proceeding in a small town became the catalyst for a century of culture wars.
The Elizabethtown Social Center kicked off its summer lawn concert season with a performance of Monkey and Francine in the ...
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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 ...
Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, was one of the earliest and most iconic conflicts in America’s ongoing ...
A century ago, a Tennessee science teacher's fight to teach evolution ignited national controversy. But battles over school ...
One hundred years ago, on July 10, 1925, the trial of John T. Scopes began.