In 1925, the tiny, growing town of Dayton saw an economic opportunity in the ACLU's newspaper ads seeking a teacher to ...

Complete with celebrity lawyers, a media frenzy, and a live chimp, the Scopes Monkey Trial catalyzed a national debate still ...

During the Scopes Trial over teaching evolution in public school, modern science clashed with religion. Its effects helped ...

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

This July marks the centenary of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial. On a return trip from Florida nearly two decades ago, my ...

Dayton, Tennessee, business leaders in 1925 recognized that a hot-button trial could put their small town on the map. They recruited teacher John Thomas Scopes to challenge the state's Butler Act ...

Dayton, Tennessee, business leaders in 1925 recognized that a hot-button trial could put their small town on the map. They recruited teacher John Thomas Scopes to challenge the state's Butler Act ...

One hundred years have passed since the Scopes Monkey Trial riveted America, and still today passions are inflamed over the ...

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...

How a 24-year-old Tennessee teacher, a Bible-thumping prosecutor, and a chimpanzee found themselves at the center of the nation’s most contentious trial a century ago.

John Thomas Scopes trial thrust small-town Dayton, Tennessee, into the center of national discussions on education, science and religion, locals remain committed to sharing the real story of how ...