A century ago, a high school teacher from a small Tennessee town ignited a national debate over human evolution
“On the surface, the trial was about something that seemed small—whether a high school teacher who taught evolution in his biology class broke the law,” says Brenda Wineapple, author of Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy and the Trial That Riveted a Nation, published last year. “But it was really about change, and how we embrace it or resist it.”
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