One hundred years ago today — July 21, 1925 — the Scopes trial wrapped up in Dayton, Tennessee. Teacher John Scopes was convicted and fined $100 for violating a Tennessee law that banned the teaching ...
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DAYTON, Tenn. — A small town in eastern Tennessee courted national publicity and attention a century ago when local leaders planned a test trial over the teaching of evolution in public schools. What ...
Reading John K. Wilson’s essay about the Scopes trail (“100 Years Ago, the Scopes Monkey Trial Discovered Academic Freedom,” The Chronicle Review, July10), I was surprised by his affirmation that ...
Over 100 years ago, one of America's most sensationalist trials began on July 10, 1925 — just up the road in Dayton, Tennessee. The case, known as the Scopes trial, pitted local high school biology ...
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On the 100th anniversary of the Scopes 'Monkey Trial', a Tennessee town embraces its place in history
Nobody was surprised when a Tennessee jury found coach and substitute teacher John T. Scopes guilty of teaching evolution to Rhea County high school class. It'd been pretty much assumed at the start ...
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A century ago today, America fixed its attention on a Dayton courthouse. Tennessee was prosecuting John T. Scopes for violating a 1925 law forbidding public schools and universities to teach the ...
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 events that unfolded in the sleepy ...
Some in our society seem to think that the Creator has somehow been disproved by science, that evolution is a proven fact, that the Scopes Monkey Trial 100 years ago this month helped settle the ...
The cover of "The Hundred Years' Trial" and author Harold Gouzoules (top) and Alexander Gouzoules (bottom). (Courtesy of Johns Hopkins University Press, Emory University and Samantha Xia) One hundred ...
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