Chicago's Clarence Darrow battled the forces of religion that would dictate public education. A century later, the fight ...

The Scopes "Monkey trial" in 1925 in Tennessee wasn't supposed to be about Genesis versus Darwin, but that's the way it ...

The setting for the “Trial of the Century” was the small county-seat town of Dayton, 40 miles north of Chattanooga. Better ...

1896: William Jennings Bryan stepped onto the podium at the Democratic National Convention inside the Chicago Coliseum at ...

A small town in Tennessee courted national publicity a century ago when it recruited a local teacher to challenge a state law ...

Tensions between religion and science erupted in a hot and humid courtroom in Dayton, Tenn., 100 years ago this month.

Opinion American populists used to run against tariffs. It could happen again. William Jennings Bryan stoked a worker revolt against protectionism that led to the first income tax.

William Jennings Bryan, 19 Mar 1860 - 26 Jul 1925 Credit Line National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Date 1900 Object number NPG.83.177 Restrictions & Rights CC0 Type Print Medium ...