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New state laws requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms are facing legal challenges.
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 reference to the famous 1925 Scopes trial that pitted religion vs. evolution in ...
One hundred years ago, on July 10, 1925, the trial of John T. Scopes began.
In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...
July 10 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial, when science and religion was put on trial in ...
It happened exactly one hundred years ago this month. And the gavel has still not completely come down.