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

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

As the famous Scopes trial, a landmark case out of Dayton, Tennessee, celebrates its centennial anniversary, themes of the ...

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

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

A century ago, a Tennessee science teacher's fight to teach evolution ignited national controversy. But battles over school ...

Hollywood didn’t ignore the play’s success either. In 1960, Inherit the Wind became a multiple Oscar-nominated film, ...

A small town in Tennessee courted publicity when it recruited a teacher to challenge a law banning the teaching of evolution.

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 ...

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

Less than a decade after the Scopes trial — during the Great Depression — rural Christians made common cause with liberal Democrats.