Teachers are generally much more concerned about doing right by their students than they are about angering parents and ...

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

Rhinelander v. Rhinelander was one of the most scandalous trials of the Jazz Age. 100 years later, it reads as a tragedy ...

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

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 ...

Reading John K. Wilson’s essay about the Scopes trail (“100 Years Ago, the Scopes Monkey Trial Discovered Academic Freedom,” The Chronicle Review, July10), I was surprised by his affirmation that ...

I enjoyed reading Alan Levenson’s letter to the editor about the 100th anniversary of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial of 1925. Unlike far too many recounts of that event, which grossly distort the ...

Stan Lane, portraying Judge John T. Raulston in the play "Destiny in Dayton" acts during a rehearsal, July 8, 2025, in Dayton, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) Stan Lane, portraying Judge John T.

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 ...