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Smithsonian Magazine on MSN10d
A Century Ago, a High School Teacher From a Small Tennessee Town Ignited a National Debate Over Human Evolution
The Scopes “monkey trial” garnered international attention, and the battle that was fought continues in some form in other ...
Takeaways from AP's report on creationist beliefs 100 years after the Scopes trial
Ken Ham began speaking in support of creationism 50 years ago — halfway between the Scopes trial and today — as a young ...
East Idaho News on MSN5d
The personal scandal of one of Idaho’s most beloved politicians, and why voters never knew about it
Idaho’s highest mountain peak in the Lost River Range of Challis National Forest was named in Borah’s memory in 1934, ...
With a massive ark and museum, he spreads creationism a century after Scopes trial. He’s not alone
Nearly a decade earlier, Answers in Genesis opened a Creation Museum in nearby Petersburg, Kentucky, where exhibits similarly ...
A century after Scopes trial, creationism persists. One proponent in Kentucky built a giant ark
Scopes monkey trial spotlighting evolution was a defeat of biblical fundamentalism. But some aren't buying it: One Kentucky ...
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Take a trip to the past by visiting Fairview in Lincoln
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Fairview is the former home of William Jennings Bryan, a larger-than-life political figure who called Nebraska home, and who ran for president three times. We visited with ...
Tribune Chronicle12d
Our Heritage: Former Kinsman resident Clarence Darrow jumps into history
Nearly a century ago, one of the most famous legal showdowns in American history unfolded in a Dayton, Tennessee, courtroom with defense attorney and former Kinsman resident Clarence Darrow serving as ...
Christianity Today24d
Setting Our Scopes on Things Above
Its mythic allure emerged from the dramatic public showdown between two titanic figures—William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow. Bryan, the star prosecutor, was a charismatic and eloquent ...
Creators Syndicate on MSN18h
Biden's Many 'Original Sins'
Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, pulls from 200 interviews in order to expose ...
UPI28d
On This Day: 1999 tornado outbreak kills dozens in Plains states
In 1913, the California Alien Land Law of 1913 (Webb-Haney Act) passed the California state Senate, ignoring the demands of Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan. The bill forbid immigrants ...
The New York Times19d
TARIFF NOT THE ISSUE -- BRYAN; Eastern Democrats Who Are Insisting on Reform Are Insincere, He Says.
LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 23.—William Jennings Bryan declares that Eastern Democrats, who are trying to make the tariff the real issue, are insincere. In The Commoner to-morrow he will say ...