Elon Musk’s plan to create a new political party puts him in the company of a long line of business and political titans looking to upend the two-party system that has dominated U.S. politics since almost the beginning.

Some people thought the 1925 Scopes monkey trial marked a cultural defeat for biblical fundamentalism.

The 1925 Scopes monkey trial famously put the spotlight on evolution and appeared to mark a defeat for biblical fundamentalism.

Tennessee became the first state in the country a hundred years ago to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms.

In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s.