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University of Chicago News4d
The Scopes ‘Monkey Trial’: 100 years later
One hundred years ago, on July 10, 1925, the trial of John T. Scopes began.
The New Yorker1d
Paige Williams on Marquis James’s Preview of the Scopes Monkey Trial
When a high-school teacher in Tennessee agreed to be prosecuted for teaching evolution, The New Yorker, still in its first ...
On the 100th anniversary of the Scopes trial, why the case still matters today
In July 1925, the tiny town of Dayton, Tennessee played host to what became the trial of the century of its day. The case ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education4d
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 ...
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, ...
Boise State Public Radio1d
100 years later, what's the legacy of the Scopes trial?
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ed Larson, about the legacy of the Scopes Trial and the teaching of evolution in school, and its relevance today.
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 ...
National Catholic Register4dOpinion
Truth Cannot Contradict Truth: The Scopes Trial 100 Years Later
On the whole, Catholics in 1925 had little problem with the teaching of evolution. Most likely due to the teaching of Pope ...