A small town in Tennessee courted national publicity a century ago when it recruited a local teacher to challenge a state law ...

The case ultimately reached the Tennessee Supreme Court, which upheld the law but acquitted Scopes on a technicality.Start ...

When a high-school teacher in Tennessee agreed to be prosecuted for teaching evolution, The New Yorker, still in its first ...

Historian and author Brenda Wineapple joins Morning Joe to discuss her new book 'Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the ...

Hollywood didn’t ignore the play’s success either. In 1960, Inherit the Wind became a multiple Oscar-nominated film, ...

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

One hundred years ago, on July 10, 1925, the trial of John T. Scopes began.

In July 1925, the tiny town of Dayton, Tennessee played host to what became the trial of the century of its day. The case ...

On the whole, Catholics in 1925 had little problem with the teaching of evolution. Most likely due to the teaching of Pope ...

On July 10, 1925, a 24-year-old high-school teacher named John Scopes was put on trial in Dayton, Tennessee for the crime of ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ed Larson, about the legacy of the Scopes Trial and the teaching of evolution in school, and its relevance today.

The Scopes Monkey Trial and the evolution of fundamentalism A staged legal proceeding in a small town became the catalyst for ...