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

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

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

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

The Rhea County Courthouse has become and remained an important historical site since the notorious Scopes trial. Still, to ...

In 1925, a small-town trial became a national spectacle, pitting faith against science. Here's what to know about the lasting ...

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John Scopes was indicted for teaching evolution. Science News looks at the forces that led to the trial and how expertise was the big loser.

Another woman whose name has come to mind for me recently is Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. After seeing her autobiography, “Lovely One,” on a table ...

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Well-known Chattanooga attorney Jerry H. Summers on Friday told members of the Civitan Club about the long-remembered Scopes ...