During the Scopes Trial over teaching evolution in public school, modern science clashed with religion. Its effects helped ...

In 1925, the tiny, growing town of Dayton saw an economic opportunity in the ACLU's newspaper ads seeking a teacher to ...

Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

This July marks the centenary of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial. On a return trip from Florida nearly two decades ago, my ...

Before O.J. Simpson’s white Bronco led police on a slow-speed chase down a Los Angeles freeway in 1994, leading to his trial the following year, Americans considered the events unfolding ...

The Rhea County Courthouse has become and remained an important historical site since the notorious Scopes trial. Still, to ...

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

When the history of Donald Trump’s remarkable political career is written, we should all hope, if only for the sake of ...

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

William Jennings Bryan at the Scopes Monkey Trial. | Hulton Archive/GettyImages In one of the case’s most dramatic turns, the Scopes defense team called the prosecutor William Jennings Bryan to ...