Complete with celebrity lawyers, a media frenzy, and a live chimp, the Scopes Monkey Trial catalyzed a national debate still ...

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

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

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

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

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

In 1925, the tiny, growing town of Dayton saw an economic opportunity in the ACLU's newspaper ads seeking a teacher to challenge the Butler Act.

The trial was imagined as a publicity stunt. Scopes wasn’t even sure if he’d taught evolution when he agreed to be a defendant. Dayton became a circus—with an actual monkey.

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 ...

A century ago, the buzzy historic court case known as the Scopes Monkey Trial presented a unique opportunity for one Tennessee city to step into the limelight, and Dayton was eager to be cast.