In July 1925, John Thomas Scopes, a Tennessee high school teacher, was tried for teaching that man descended from a lower ...

This is the centennial year for the Scopes “monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, 1925’s “trial of the century”. In the dock ...

Kennewick special education teacher returned to classroom after six-week leave. Social media quote after Charlie Kirk’s death set off school district review. Community response split: parents decried ...

BRAINERD — When an email from ‘ILHS’ appeared in his inbox, Patrick Spradlin nearly deleted it unread. “I thought it was spam, or at worst a scam,” he said. “I didn’t know what ‘ILHS’ stood for or who ...

Iowa Labor History Society was formed almost a decade ago to preserve and promote the history of Iowa's workers, which in turn helped shape the history of the state. The ILHS is bringing the true ...

Patrick Spradlin portrays defense attorney Clarence Darrow in the one-man play, Clarence Darrow. The play will tour Iowa in October. The performances, presented by the Iowa Labor History Society, aim ...

“History repeats itself — that’s one of the things wrong with history,” Clarence Darrow once said. Darrow, who died in 1938 at age 80, understood history, or at least how to make it. The most famous ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (FOX 56) — Since the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk during an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, people across the country have been shaken. “I just ...

Following Kirk’s murder in Utah on Wednesday, several Belmont students posted celebratory statements on the Belmont specific page on the anonymous social media platform Fizz. When confronted by others ...

If the Scopes “Monkey” Trial is discussed nowadays, the tone usually is pejorative. The events of July 1925 — in which a small-town substitute teacher was charged with a misdemeanor for teaching ...