One hundred years have passed since the Scopes Monkey Trial riveted America, and still today passions are inflamed over the ...

For decades, Dayton locals tried to forget about the town’s connection to the controversial 1925 trial. Now, they embrace it ...

Dayton community members didn't look kindly upon reenactments of the Scopes trial. Here's how they've became the hosts of a ...

Complete with celebrity lawyers, a media frenzy, and a live chimp, the Scopes Monkey Trial catalyzed a national debate still ...

Perhaps the trial’s most lasting legacy is the precedent it set for how we engage with our ideological enemies and the role ...

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...

In 1925, a small-town trial became a national spectacle, pitting faith against science. Here's what to know about the lasting ...

John Scopes was indicted for teaching evolution. Science News looks at the forces that led to the trial and how expertise was the big loser.

Scopes was never ripped out of the classroom by angry townspeople, for example. He was politely summoned to a drugstore to discuss an advertisement the ACLU put in newspapers, Dye said.

John Thomas Scopes, a high school teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, was accused of teaching evolution in violation of a state law ...

(CNN) -- Law professor Douglas Linder of the University of Missouri, Kansas City, joined Law Chat on Wednesday, July 12, to discuss the Scopes monkey trial. This week marks the 75th anniversary of ...