Decided: Stromberg v. California — The U.S. Supreme Court rules that laws banning the use of particular emblems or...

Having volunteered to help prosecute of John Scopes for violating the Butler Act's prohibition on teaching evolution, William Jennings...

The General Court of the Massachusetts issues a decree banning non-Christians and anyone not a member of the church...

Pope John Paul II is born Karol Józef Wojtyla in Poland. During the first part of his life Wojtyla...

Pope John Paul II issues a "motu proprio" entitled Sacramentorum Sanctitatis Tutela. With this, the pope assigns exclusive canonical...

Philosopher William K. Clifford is born in Exeter, England. A mathematician and philosopher who does not write a great...

Anarchist and freethinker Emma Goldman dies. Goldman always believed that freethought and anarchism were connected because both involve challenging...

Friedrich Nietzsche's sister, Elisabeth, marries Bernhard Förster, a professional antisemite. In his writings, Förster describes Jews as a...

Thomas Henry Huxley is born in Middlesex, England. A natural scientist and author, Huxley will become widely known as...

Clarence Darrow, who will be part of the defense team for John Scopes in Dayton, Tennessee, explains in an...