Scopes was the first-ever battle in the culture wars,” said Edward Larson, a historian and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author ...

The law books record it as State of Tennessee v. John T. Scopes. History remembers it as the “ Monkey Trial .” The case ...

From the founding of the United States until long after the Civil War, hundreds of the elected leaders writing the nation’s laws were current or former slaveowners. More than 1,700 people who ...

Several also promoted “twentieth century” Sunday sections packed with analysis of their society’s place in history, 19th-century summing-ups, charts comparing 1800’s technology to 1900’s ...

T he rest of us have long wondered why one of the greatest conservatives of the 20th century, Winston Churchill, trashed another great, Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge, true to form, never offered an ...