For decades, Dayton locals tried to forget about the town’s connection to the controversial 1925 trial. Now, they embrace it ...

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...

Dayton community members didn't look kindly upon reenactments of the Scopes trial. Here's how they've became the hosts of a ...

One hundred years have passed since the Scopes Monkey Trial riveted America, and still today passions are inflamed over the ...

Perhaps the trial’s most lasting legacy is the precedent it set for how we engage with our ideological enemies and the role ...

Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

The State of Tennessee v. John T. Scopes, better known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, marked a turning point in American academic freedom and First Amendment rights in July 1925.

The Scopes Trial Museum is in the courthouse basement. For the centennial anniversary, the Scopes festival is bigger than ever, featuring multiple exhibits, events and activities through July.

American lawyer and politician William Jennings Bryan during the Scopes trial in Dayton, Tenn. Hulton Archive/Getty Image The very next day, the jury found Scopes guilty and fined him US$100.

Well-known Chattanooga attorney Jerry H. Summers on Friday told members of the Civitan Club about the long-remembered Scopes ...

The Supreme Court ruled that a Maryland couple could pull their child out of classes where the material involved books with LGBTQ themes.  Almost exactly one hundred years ago – in July 1925 – there ...