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

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

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

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

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

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

A hundred years later, many religious Americans in rural areas still feel that the cosmopolitan leaders of the Democratic ...

As the famous Scopes trial, a landmark case out of Dayton, Tennessee, celebrates its centennial anniversary, themes of the case continue to be felt today.

When Darrow took on Bryan 100 years ago today, science got the win. Or did it? The courthouse clash of Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan pitted modernism against fundamentalism.

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

Dayton, Tennessee was the center of the world's attention.A biology teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching Ch ...