In a meeting of their General Assembly, the Presbyterian Church passes a resolution denouncing the theory of evolution....

The U.S. House of Representatives passes the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution with 42 votes to spare...

In Greenville, South Carolina, an all-white jury of 12 men acquits 28 whites who had been charged with beating,...

Roman emperors Theodosius II and Valentinian III issue a new law limiting where people can draw a cross....

Meeting in Des Moins, Iowa, the national convention of the United Presbyterian Church votes overwhelmingly — 527 to 313...

Decided: Brown vs. Board of Education — The U.S. Supreme Court rules 9-0 to end the legality of "separate...

Clarence Darrow, who has volunteered to help defend John Scopes in his trial for violating the Butler Act prohibition...

Pope John Paul II admits that the Catholic Church made an error in 1663 when it condemned Galileo....

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

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