The trial of John T. Scopes was an irresistible spectacle that pitted evolution against religion, with public schools as the ...

On July 21, 1925, the so-called Monkey Trial, which pitted Clarence Darrow against William Jennings Bryan in Dayton, Tenn., ...

On July 21, 1925 — a century ago today — substitute teacher John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating a state ban on ...

The misdemeanor trial took place in July 1925. It put Dayton, Tenn., on the map -- a spot townspeople didn't always relish.

1896: William Jennings Bryan stepped onto the podium at the Democratic National Convention inside the Chicago Coliseum at ...

COMMENTARY: Is life in this world a random product of meaningless non-causes? Or is it guided by divine Providence?

At the behest of the American Civil Liberties Union, a young science teacher, John T. Scopes, agreed to stand trial for violating Tennessee’s Butler Act, which forbade educators “to teach any theory ...

The Scopes "Monkey trial" in 1925 in Tennessee wasn't supposed to be about Genesis versus Darwin, but that's the way it ...

Tensions between religion and science erupted in a hot and humid courtroom in Dayton, Tenn., 100 years ago this month.

Chicago's Clarence Darrow battled the forces of religion that would dictate public education. A century later, the fight ...

America marks a century of condescension toward religious fundamentalists that spread from the trial in Tennessee of a ...