One hundred years ago this month, Americans were transfixed as a Tennessee courtroom hosted challenge to the state’s new law barring “the teaching of the Evolution Theory” in public schools, including ...

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

For over 30 years, people in Rhea County have put on a play every July using the trial transcript, aiming to correct the ...

John Washington Butler, a corn and tobacco farmer serving in the Tennessee House of Representatives, introduced the Butler ...

When a high-school teacher in Tennessee agreed to be prosecuted for teaching evolution, The New Yorker, still in its first ...

The 100 th anniversary Scopes Monkey Trial was held in the Bryan Memorial Park for two performances at the band stage on ...

From the Anti-Masons to Elon Musk's new America Party, here's a look at how third parties have made their mark through ...

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

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

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