What the Scopes Trial Was Really About

This is the centennial year for the Scopes “monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, 1925’s “trial of the century”. In the dock ...
Yahoo

Trial of the century: Why 100 years later, the Scopes case still matters

DAYTON, TN – Inside a sweltering courtroom in July, a fierce debate was underway here in this small Tennessee town. Modern science versus religion and the battle over what is taught inside America’s ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

The Scopes ‘Monkey Trial’: 100 years later

One hundred years ago, on July 10, 1925, the trial of John T. Scopes began. It concluded 11 days later with a conviction. Today, this battle in the conflict over religion and science in United States ...
NPR

Evolution went on trial 100 years ago. Where are we now?

One hundred years ago, a substitute teacher in Dayton, Tenn., was charged with the crime of teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. His name was John Scopes. At the time, ...
News Tribune

Before, during, after Scopes Monkey Trial

This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the infamous trial of The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, better known as the Scopes Monkey Trial. Much of what happened during this circus of a ...
Penn Live

100 years after Scopes ‘Monkey Trial,’ religion in public schools hits courts again

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One hundred years ago, a public high school teacher stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching human evolution. His nation is still feeling the reverberations today. The ...
WGN-TV

On 100th anniversary of Scopes Monkey Trial, role of WGN Radio echoes with impact

In the summer of 1925, a high school biology teacher in Tennessee named John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution to his students. At the time, Tennessee law ...
The News Leader

Scopes trial could have happened anywhere. Why was it in Dayton, Tennessee?

Dayton, Tennessee, business leaders in 1925 recognized that a hot-button trial could put their small town on the map. They recruited teacher John Thomas Scopes to challenge the state's Butler Act, in ...
Townhall

The Creator and the Scopes Trial

Some in our society seem to think that the Creator has somehow been disproved by science, that evolution is a proven fact, that the Scopes Monkey Trial 100 years ago this month helped settle the ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

New Fortune’s ‘Monkeys’ aims to re-create the experience of famed 1925 trial

How monumental was the Scopes “Monkey Trial” of 1925 in Dayton, Tenn.? “It was the most famous event that the world was aware of at the time,” said Richard Baird, whose New Fortune Theatre Company is ...
AOL

100 years after the Scopes trial, Americans are still divided over what kids should learn

In 1925, an American teacher's fight to educate his high school students about evolution thrust a small-town controversy into the national spotlight. The case, now commonly known as the Scopes Monkey ...