Tennessee became the first state in the country a hundred years ago to ban the teaching of evolution in public school ...

The trial of teacher John T. Scopes took place in 1925 in Tennessee. It was labeled as a publicity stunt, but a century later ...

The famously agnostic attorney and Hyde Park resident fought a Tennessee law that banned teaching evolution in a case that ...

Nina Helstein has been celebrating the memory of lawyer and Hyde Park resident Clarence Darrow with other Chicagoans nearly every March 13 at a bridge named after him in Jackson Park since she was a ...

The last brief witness Frank E. Robinson was a local druggist who expressed his opinion that using the above biology book ...

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According to the Tennessee State Library, Dayton community leaders found 24-year-old John T. Scopes, who had just finished his first year of teaching, willing to take up the test case. Scopes was ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — They called it the “monkey trial.” It was supposed to be a publicity stunt. A hundred years later, it is remembered as far more. In March 1925, Tennessee became the ...

The first page of the Tennessee Supreme Court ruling on the appeal of the John T. Scopes vs. state of Tennessee trial, commonly known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, is shown at the Tennessee State ...