An Anti-Evolution League holds a books sales at the opening of the Scopes "Monkey" Trial in which biology teacher John T. Scopes is being prosecuted for teaching evolution in his class An ...

This is the centennial year for the Scopes “monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, 1925’s “trial of the century”. In the dock was John Scopes, a substitute high school teacher who was accused of ...

Nellie Kenyon, who was a rare female reporter 100 years ago, wrote about how Dayton, Tennessee, was preparing for the Scopes ...

Scopes Trial. The event is a pre-show panel discussion that connects the historic ACLU Scopes Trial to today’s ongoing First ...

The 100th anniversary is approaching of the law under which John Thomas Scopes was prosecuted and convicted in Dayton, Tennessee, in the celebrated “monkey trial.” Enacted on March 21, 1925, the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One hundred years ...

John Thomas Scopes came to Tennessee fresh out of college. In the spring of 1925, he had just completed his first year as science teacher and part-time football coach at the high school in the little ...

We still can’t consider the 1925 “Monkey Trial” of schoolteacher John Thomas Scopes a historical one-off, nor can we consider its dramatized account, the Tony-winning 1955 play Inherit the Wind, a ...

Tim DeChristopher lost his chance to prove in court that human-caused climate change is a real risk. I was hoping for a Scopes Monkey Trial-style debate, but I guess that's not... Tim DeChristopher ...

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