To understand the impact of the Scopes trial, we must consider the theological disputes that gave birth to fundamentalism as a distinct religious movement within American Protestantism. The roots of ...

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in American history, over the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution.

Through the decades, the State of Tennessee v. John T. Scopes assumed the mantle of "the most famous trial in America." Academics explored the subject in thousands of theses and dissertations.

The 1925 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 ...

Before O.J. Simpson’s white Bronco led police on a slow-speed chase down a Los Angeles freeway in 1994, leading to his trial the following year, Americans considered the events unfolding ...

One thing that the film and play misrepresent is the circumstances of Scopes' arrest, which was a deliberate test case to challenge the Tennessee law outlawing the teaching of evolution. "It was a ...

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has criticized the Federal Government’s recent reform initiatives, describing them as political optics designed to manage public perception ahead of the ...

"The Scopes trial didn't start the 100-year culture war, but it made both sides realize how sharply divided we were," he says. "These trench lines have stayed in roughly the same spot," he says ...

A century after a famous trial that centered on the teaching of evolution, science continues to be at the center of contentious public debates.

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This week marks the 100th anniversary of the Scopes Monkey Trial, formally known as the State of Tennessee vs. John Thomas Scopes. Scopes was a teacher accused of breaking a Tennessee law that ...

Netanyahu’s Washington trip is less a mid-war strategy session and more a staging event – a showcase of the US–Israel alliance reborn through conflict.