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

Before O.J. Simpson’s white Bronco led police on a slow-speed chase down a Los Angeles freeway in 1994, leading to his trial the following year, Americans considered the events unfolding ...

The Darwinian theory,” according to Bryan, “represents man as reaching his present perfection by the operation of the law of ...

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

Perhaps the trial’s most lasting legacy is the precedent it set for how we engage with our ideological enemies and the role ...

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

One hundred years after the trial, and as we have documented in our scholarly work, the culture war over evolution and ...

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

Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

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

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