In July 1925, John Thomas Scopes, a Tennessee high school teacher, was tried for teaching that man descended from a lower ...

This is the centennial year for the Scopes “monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, 1925’s “trial of the century”. In the dock ...

This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the infamous trial of The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, better known as the Scopes Monkey Trial. Much of what happened during this circus of a ...

I spend a lot of time in my head, lost in thought. It’s something I have always done and it’s been misunderstood by those around me the whole time. Teachers at Selma Street School would send ...

Reading John K. Wilson’s essay about the Scopes trail (“100 Years Ago, the Scopes Monkey Trial Discovered Academic Freedom,” The Chronicle Review, July10), I was surprised by his affirmation that ...

I enjoyed reading Alan Levenson’s letter to the editor about the 100th anniversary of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial of 1925. Unlike far too many recounts of that event, which grossly distort the ...

In the summer of 1925, a high school biology teacher in Tennessee named John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution to his students. At the time, Tennessee law ...

Washington Gave Bigotry No Sanction. We Should Do the Same Mr. Conservative and the Minister Sorkin Rounds Up the Usual Suspects This Thanksgiving, Heed the Words of George Washington Thanksgiving Day ...

“At the present time there exist upon the earth five races… each very different from the other. The first is the Ethiopian or Negro type originating in Africa and finally . .. the highest type of all, ...

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 ...

I was proud of the Asheville Citizen Times for publishing on Friday, July 11, the story of the “Trial of the century,” which was the Scopes trial of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. This was the famous ...

Some in our society seem to think that the Creator has somehow been disproved by science, that evolution is a proven fact, that the Scopes Monkey Trial 100 years ago this month helped settle the ...