In July 1925, John Thomas Scopes, a Tennessee high school teacher, was tried for teaching that man descended from a lower ...

Defense attorney Clarence Darrow, left, and prosecutor William Jennings Bryan speak with each other during the Scopes monkey trial in July 1925, in Dayton, Tenn. (AP Photo, File) Black and white ...

This is the centennial year for the Scopes “monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, 1925’s “trial of the century”. In the dock ...

Before O.J. Simpson’s “trial of the century,” another courtroom clash riveted America and merited that title. In the sleepy town of Dayton, Tenn., on July 10, 1925, the Scopes “Monkey Trial” was ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on July 8, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic ...

Only days after William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow argued the "the teaching of evolution in the classroom" Scopes case before the judge, the national press and a packed courtroom, ...

One hundred years ago this month, Americans became fixated on a sensational jury trial in Dayton, Tennessee. Famed trial attorney Clarence Darrow and lawyer-orator William Jennings Bryan faced off in ...

On Oct. 24, 1896, William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic Party nominee for President, spoke to what the Quincy Weekly Whig called a “vast multitude” in appearances at Courthouse Square, Washington ...

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