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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 ...
The Press Democrat1dOpinion
Close to Home: Still debating evolution 100 years after the Scopes trial
John Washington Butler, a corn and tobacco farmer serving in the Tennessee House of Representatives, introduced the Butler ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
100 years after the Scopes trial, Americans are still divided over what kids should learn
A century ago, a Tennessee science teacher's fight to teach evolution ignited national controversy. But battles over school ...
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, ...
Tired of the put-downs, Tennessee town corrects the record with its own Scopes trial play
A small town in Tennessee courted publicity when it recruited a teacher to challenge a law banning the teaching of evolution.
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 ...
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.
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 ...