The trial of John T. Scopes, a young high school teacher charged with violating Tennessee’s Butler Act by teaching the theory ...

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

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

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

One hundred years after the trial, and as we have documented in our scholarly work, the culture war over evolution and ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...