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country. Being a devoted Protestant, he gained the moniker “the Great Commoner” for his populist speech and actions. In his later years, his support of Christian fundamentalism in the infamous Scopes monkey trial of 1925 ran afoul of the First Amendment’s ban on state sponsorship of ...
* In 1914, the American Book Company published a high school textbook entitled A Civic Biology that became the best-selling biology textbook in the United States and the subject of the famous Scopes“monkey trial.”[45] [46] In the section on evolution, it claims: At the present time ther...
Kramer looked toBroadwayfor his next project, adaptingInherit the Wind, the Jerome Lawrence–Robert E. Leeplay about theScopes Trialof 1925. The1960 filmfeatured acclaimed performances bySpencer Tracy(asClarence Darrow) andFredric March(asWilliam Jennings Bryan). Kramer also earned praise for his di...
About America’s Stonehenge Affectionately referred to as America’sStonehenge, 19-foot high granite monuments called the Georgia Guidestones were built in 1980. Both a display of the local Georgia granite and an astronomical calendar, they were a popular tourist attraction. ...
Flashback: Scopes Monkey – Rare Footage of the “Trial of the Century” The 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial was one of the most important legal battles of its time. Two of the greatest speakers of the era, Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, faced off in a debate encompassing science, ...
, highly publicized trial (known as the “Monkey Trial”) of a Dayton, Tennessee, high-school teacher, John T. Scopes, charged with violating state law by teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. The trial’s proceedings helped to bring the scientific evidence for evolution into the ...
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which they considered a revealed truth. The result was the famousScopes Trial(the so-called “Monkey Trial”) of 1925, in which a high-school teacher, John T. Scopes, was convicted of unlawfully teaching the theory of evolution (he was later acquitted on a technicality). Creationism has lar...