Today, on the 26th of April, we commemorate an extraordinary departure that took place in 1848, when two ambitious Welsh botanists, Alfred Russel Wallace, and Henry Walter Bates, embarked from Liverpool, England, bound for the vast, uncharted wilderness of the Amazon, South America. Their goal was to explore and document its teeming natural history, but …
In the sweltering summer of 1925, a small town in Tennessee became the focal point of a national debate that would echo through the annals of American history. The Scopes Monkey Trial, as it came to be known, wasn’t just a legal skirmish over teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution—it was a profound cultural and philosophical …