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

The case ultimately reached the Tennessee Supreme Court, which upheld the law but acquitted Scopes on a technicality.Start ...

Historian and author Brenda Wineapple joins Morning Joe to discuss her new book 'Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the ...

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

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In July 1925, the tiny town of Dayton, Tennessee played host to what became the trial of the century of its day. The case ...

One hundred years ago, on July 10, 1925, the trial of John T. Scopes began.

On July 10, 1925, a 24-year-old high-school teacher named John Scopes was put on trial in Dayton, Tennessee for the crime of ...

For decades, Dayton locals tried to forget about the town’s connection to the controversial 1925 trial. Now, they embrace it ...

Things to Do Tired of put-downs, Tennessee town corrects the record with play about the Scopes trial it hosted Automated narration. Learn more ...

A staged legal proceeding in a small town became the catalyst for a century of culture wars.

On the whole, Catholics in 1925 had little problem with the teaching of evolution. Most likely due to the teaching of Pope ...