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

John Washington Butler, a corn and tobacco farmer serving in the Tennessee House of Representatives, introduced the Butler ...

As the famous Scopes trial, a landmark case out of Dayton, Tennessee, celebrates its centennial anniversary, themes of the ...

Chicago's Clarence Darrow battled the forces of religion that would dictate public education. A century later, the fight ...

DAYTON, Tenn. — A small town in eastern Tennessee courted national publicity and attention a century ago when local leaders ...

A century ago, a Tennessee science teacher's fight to teach evolution ignited national controversy. But battles over school ...

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

The setting for the “Trial of the Century” was the small county-seat town of Dayton, 40 miles north of Chattanooga. Better ...

A small town in Tennessee courted publicity when it recruited a teacher to challenge a law banning the teaching of evolution.

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

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 ...