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This July marks the centenary of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial. On a return trip from Florida nearly two decades ago, my ...
Perhaps the trial’s most lasting legacy is the precedent it set for how we engage with our ideological enemies and the role ...
One hundred years have passed since the Scopes Monkey Trial riveted America, and still today passions are inflamed over the ...
One hundred years after the trial, and as we have documented in our scholarly work, the culture war over evolution and ...
1984: Politicians of all levels gathered to meet President Ronald Reagan, who stopped by Decatur in a re-election campaign ...
Life in the 1920s looked vastly different than our world today. From fashion and music to sports and travel, here's how times ...
In 1925, the tiny, growing town of Dayton saw an economic opportunity in the ACLU's newspaper ads seeking a teacher to challenge the Butler Act.
For decades, Dayton locals tried to forget about the town’s connection to the controversial 1925 trial. Now, they embrace it ...
The film's title, drawn from Proverbs 11:29 — " He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be ...