Tennessee became the first state in the country a hundred years ago to ban the teaching of evolution in public school ...
Curtain's Up Theater Company marks the 100th anniversary of the event by performing "Inherit the Wind" from March 27-30 2025 ...
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 famously agnostic attorney and Hyde Park resident fought a Tennessee law that banned teaching evolution in a case that ...
The last brief witness Frank E. Robinson was a local druggist who expressed his opinion that using the above biology book ...
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 ...
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 ...