Dec 2, 2025 | Anti-Racism, Brenda Wineapple, Civil Rights Movement, Dayton, Evangelical History, Evolution, Glenn Branch, History, History and Politics, Jerry Bergman, Journal of Creation, Journal of Negro History, Lynching, National Center for Science Education, Scopes Trial, Second Ku Klux Klan, Segregationist Chrisitianity, Teddy Roosevelt, The Other Side of the Scopes Trial, White Evangelical Racism, William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson |
by William Trollinger Burning of 80 ft. cross, KKK, August 9, 1925. Jerry Bergman’s campaign to invent an anti-racist William Jennings Bryan continues apace. This time, it involves a review of Brenda Wineapple’s best-selling book on the Scopes Trial. It is...
Sep 2, 2025 | American History, Butler Act, Charles Darwin, Clarence Darrow, Dayton, Evolution, Glenn Branch, Herbert Wendt, History of Science, In Search of Adam, Inherit the Wind, Jerry Bergman, John Scopes, Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette, Misinformation, National Center for Science Education, Raymond Dart, Science Education, Science Service, Scopes Trial, The Other Side of the Scopes Trial, Walter White, Watson Davis |
by Glenn Branch Glenn Branch is deputy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit organization that defends the integrity of American science education against ideological interference. He is the author of numerous articles on evolution...
Jul 15, 2025 | ACLU, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Institute of Sacred Literature, American Scientific Affiliation, Andrew Dickson White, Answers in Genesis, Arthur Compton, Asa Gray, Biblical Literalism, Charles Darwin, Conflict Thesis, Creation Science, Creationism, Culture War, Dayton, Edward B. Davis, Eugenics, Evolution, Francis Collins, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Harry Rimmer, Human Genome Project, John William Draper, Michael Pupin, Protestant Modernist Pamphlets, Religion and Science, Robert Millikan, Samuel Christian Schmucker, Science, Scopes Trial, Shailer Matthews, Social Evolution, Social Gospel, Society of Catholic Scientists, William Jennings Bryan, Young Earth Creationism |
by Edward B. Davis Edward B. (“Ted”) Davis, Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at Messiah University, writes about Christianity and science in the Scientific Revolution and modern America. His new book, Protestant Modernist Pamphlets: Science and Religion in...
Jul 1, 2025 | Abeka Books, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Bob Jones University, Butler Act, Charles Darwin, Clarence Darrow, Conservative Evangelicals, Dayton, Evolution, Flood Geology, Flood Narrative, H. L. Mencken, Henry Morris, John C. Whitcomb, John Scopes, Scopes Trial, The Conversation, The Genesis Flood, William Jennings Bryan, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger and Susan Trollinger Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at The Conversation. We are grateful to the editors to republish it here. The 1925 Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law...
Jun 17, 2025 | Billy the Kid, Dayton, Evolution, F.E. Dean, Fort Sumner, Glenn Branch, Intelligent Design, John Scopes, Joseph LeConte, National Center for Science Education, Scopes Trial, William Jennings Bryan |
by Glenn Branch Glenn Branch is deputy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit organization that defends the integrity of American science education against ideological interference. He is the author of numerous articles on evolution...
Dec 15, 2023 | A Fever in the Heartland, Anti-Immigration, Birth of a Nation, Black History, Christian Nationalism, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Dayton, Harry Baujan, Johnson-Reed Act, KKK, Linda Gordon, Lynching, Second Ku Klux Klan, Society of Mary, Timothy Egan, University of Dayton, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at The Conversation. KKK Demonstration in Dayton, OH on September 21, 1923. Photo courtesy of Dayton Metro Library. It was Dec. 19, 1923 – 100 years ago. The first day of Christmas break at...
