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, ...

Life in the 1920s looked vastly different than our world today. From fashion and music to sports and travel, here's how times ...

Something special is happening in Rhea County in July to mark the 100th anniversary of a very important event there, a trial ...

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

• The first volume of Adolf Hitler’s autobiographical manifesto Mein Kampf is published on July 18. • Britain enacts the first Palestinian Citizenship Order, 1925, on July 24. The act officially ...

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.

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

Hear local leaders read works by historical figures such as Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglas, William Jennings Bryan and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Home delivery and Digital Access customers of ...

In March 1925, Tennessee became the first state in the country to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms. Strong reactions rippled across the United States. The eventual upshot: a ...

Nearly a decade earlier, Answers in Genesis opened a Creation Museum in nearby Petersburg, Kentucky, where exhibits similarly ...

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