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

A century ago this past summer, journalists and hucksters flocked to the small Tennessee town of Dayton. They had come to witness what one of the 200 or so scribblers present, the Baltimore Sun’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1925, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee, where the law required the teaching of divine creation and prohibited ...

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, ...

When the Scopes Monkey Trial was taking place 100 years ago, Nellie Kenyon was a rare female reporter on hand. Tyler Boyd of Athens is the author of “Nellie Kenyon: Trailblazing Tennessee Journalist.” ...

(RNS) It happened exactly 100 years ago this month, and the gavel has still not completely come down. Having nothing better to do the other evening, I decided to treat myself to an evening of Amazon ...

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 ...

This summer marks the 100th anniversary of the Scopes Trial. On July 21, 1925, a jury in Dayton, Tenn., convicted John Scopes, a high school science teacher, of violating the state’s Butler Act, which ...

Nobody was surprised when a Tennessee jury found coach and substitute teacher John T. Scopes guilty of teaching evolution to Rhea County high school class. It'd been pretty much assumed at the start ...