The issues contested in the second-story courtroom of the Rhea County courthouse may seem long settled, but they still divide ...

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

Mr. Bryan’s closest friend in Chattanooga was said to be George Washington Chamlee Sr., who had been the local district ...

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

The Scopes trial has long been depicted as a clash between modern science and religious fundamentalism. But it was also a ...

Both then and today, the widely publicized trial has been portrayed as a microcosm of an asserted battle between "science" ...

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

Catholic intellectuals of the time were already engaging with evolutionary theory in a more open-minded way. That willingness ...

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 ...

A small town in Tennessee courted national publicity a century ago when it recruited a local teacher to challenge a state law ...

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