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From evolution to anti-racism, parents and progressives have clashed for a century over who gets to tell our origin stories.

Clarence Darrow special, including Henry Fonda in the one-man performance of the David Rintels play directed by John Houseman.

Nellie Kenyon covered some of Tennessee’s biggest news stories in the 20th century from the Scope’s Trial to Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa’s mistrial and conviction

Public school book banning is back in the news.

Public school book bans in North Carolina; censorship; fear of change, science and modernity; Critical Race Theory

I've been an evangelical Christian all my life, with the exception of my exuberantly misspent teenage years and early 20s.

I've been an evangelical Christian all my life, with the exception of my exuberantly misspent teenage years and early 20s.

In 1928, an Arkansas Baptist minister named Ben Bogard helped to pass a ballot measure prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the state's schools, presenting it as a bulwark against atheism.

In 1928, an Arkansas Baptist minister named Ben Bogard helped to pass a ballot measure prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the state's schools, presenting it as a bulwark against atheism.

Epics, myths, narratives enrich the imagination and a culture. Science merely and heroically endeavours to understand reality