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

In July 1925, John Thomas Scopes, a Tennessee high school teacher, was tried for teaching that man descended from a lower ...

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John Thomas Scopes was your quintessential math and science teacher of the 1920s. He had round glasses and a serious demeanor and wore a skimmer hat, sometimes perched rakishly on one side of his head ...

If one looks at a standard American history textbook published in the last few decades, chances are its references to Tennessee will include the three presidents from here, the Civil War battles, TVA, ...

The 1920s brought profound changes to the United States: traditional values, beliefs and ideas clashed with the modern world that novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald called the "Jazz Age." These societal ...

One hundred years ago today — July 21, 1925 — the Scopes trial wrapped up in Dayton, Tennessee. Teacher John Scopes was convicted and fined $100 for violating a Tennessee law that banned the teaching ...

WILLIAMSTOWN, Ky. (AP) — Some people thought the 1925 Scopes monkey trial marked a cultural defeat for biblical fundamentalism. But a century after what was dubbed the Trial of the Century, the issue ...

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 ...

It made for great oratory between eminent rivals, and it put the debate over teaching evolution on front pages across the country. But one thing the Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925 did not do was settle ...