Nobody was surprised when a Tennessee jury found coach and substitute teacher John T. Scopes guilty of teaching evolution to Rhea County high school class. It'd been pretty much assumed at the start ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Scopes Monkey trial captivated the nation in a battle of classroom teachings. DAYTON, TN – Inside a sweltering courtroom in ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The star attorneys of the Scopes trial: Clarence Darrow, left, for the defense and William Jennings Bryan for the prosecution.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — They called it the “monkey trial.” It was supposed to be a publicity stunt. A hundred years later, it is remembered as far more. In March 1925, Tennessee became the first state ...

Almost a century has passed since a Tennessee schoolteacher was found guilty of teaching evolution to his students. We’ve come a long way since that happened on July 21, 1925. Haven’t we? No, not ...

As July marks the 100th anniversary of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial in nearby Dayton, Tennessee, and its focus on teaching evolution, observers have been talking about the parallels with current ...

(The Conversation) — The 1925 Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, was one of the earliest and most iconic ...

Jesuit Fr. John Conley, a theology professor at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, is pictured in this undated photo. Conley has a keen interest in the history of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 ...

Having nothing better to do the other evening, I decided to treat myself to an evening of Amazon Prime — and watching, once again, one of my favorite movies. I discussed this movie, and its ...

Ask Americans about the Scopes trial, and they might have heard of it as the “trial of the century,” a showdown over teaching human evolution. Less well known are its origins. As historian Edward J.