Religion in Twentieth Century America Randall Herbert Balmer. Oxford University Press, USA, $31.95 (144pp) ISBN 978-0-19-511295-5 ...

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

Religious freedom was among the most important of those principles.Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and 18th-century ...

If religion in America were bought and sold like a stock, ... Religious attendance dipped after the trauma of the Civil War before recovering and reaching new highs by the early 20th century.

As the famous Scopes trial, a landmark case out of Dayton, Tennessee, celebrates its centennial anniversary, themes of the case continue to be felt today.

Religion: Prayer for the 20th Century. 2 minute read. ... Dean Suter hopes that the American Prayer Book will soon “take on a new chapter, as an ancient house adds a new wing.” ...

Over the past 50 years, the Supreme Court’s neglect of America’s best traditions of religious liberty, ... protecting everyone’s right to exercise their religion. In the 20th century, ...

In retrospect, the most immoral conduct in America in the late 20th century was not taking place in gay bathhouses but in conservative churches where blowhards preached homophobia, embraced bigots ...

In the early part of the 20th century, the Great Migration saw millions of African Americans leave the South for urban areas in the North. Now a new study sheds light on another great migration.