Haven't we? No, not really. The Christian fundamentalism that begat the state law that John Scopes violated has not gone away ...

Though I am familiar with the Scopes trial, I was pleased to read “A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes trial, the original fight ...

John Thomas Scopes came to Tennessee fresh out of college. In the spring of 1925, he had just completed his first year as science teacher and part-time football coach at the high school in the ...

He persuaded a judge to spare their lives. The following year, he defended a Tennessee schoolteacher named John Scopes who was accused of teaching evolution. The duel between the agnostic Darrow ...

John Scopes, the 24-year-old defendant, taught in the public high school in Dayton, Tenn., and included evolution in his curriculum. He agreed to be the focus of a test case attacking the new law ...

A century after the Scopes trial, hopeful prospects beckon for teaching the unifying principle of the biological sciences in ...

American journalist H. L. Mencken dubbed it the “Monkey Trial.” The facts are these: A high school science teacher, John Scopes, was being tried for violating the Butler Act, a recently passed ...

The millions of words written about the “Trial of the Century” (there have been several given that title) law reviews, documentaries, Broadway plays, and movies (“Inherit the Wind”) never seems to end ...

The Scopes "Monkey" Trial riveted nations across the world in 1925. In the case, Tennessee high school teacher John T. Scopes was accused of teaching ...