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Could the Presidential Election Have Gone Any Other Way?
“2024” is a well-paced, thorough and often (darkly) humorous account of the two-year campaign season that began when Donald ...
When books were actually banned
The CIA's International Literacy Center played a vital role in providing access to “the expression of independent ideas so desperately sought by millions.” ...
Trial of the century: Why 100 years later, the Scopes case still matters
As the famous Scopes trial, a landmark case out of Dayton, Tennessee, celebrates its centennial anniversary, themes of the ...
100 years ago, the Scopes trial gripped the nation, and here we go again
Chicago's Clarence Darrow battled the forces of religion that would dictate public education. A century later, the fight ...
A century after a man was convicted of teaching evolution, the debate on religion in schools rages
Scopes “Monkey Trial” in Tennessee, where a teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution, continues to influence debates on religion in public schools.