One hundred years ago this month, Americans became fixated on a sensational jury trial in Dayton, Tennessee. Famed trial attorney Clarence Darrow and lawyer-orator William Jennings Bryan faced off in ...

Nellie Kenyon, who was a rare female reporter 100 years ago, wrote about how Dayton, Tennessee, was preparing for the Scopes ...

Teacher John Scopes was convicted and fined $100 for violating a Tennessee law that banned the teaching of evolution because ...

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Both then and today, the widely publicized trial has been portrayed as a microcosm of an asserted battle between "science" ...

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The Scopes trial has long been depicted as a clash between modern science and religious fundamentalism. But it was also a chapter in the eugenic racism that had become a creed of social elites in the ...

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

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

This is part of a weekly series on our region’s history coordinated by the Trumbull County Historical Society. In ...

Rumors that God is dead — that the Creator was somehow killed off in the Scopes trial — are greatly exaggerated.