John Washington Butler, a corn and tobacco farmer serving in the Tennessee House of Representatives, introduced the Butler ...

One hundred years ago, in Dayton, Tennessee, the Scopes “Monkey Trial” was underway, with the battle for children’s public education in the balance. This case has become infamous in American legal ...

Thursday marked the 100th anniversary of the commencement of the “Monkey Trial” of science teacher John T. Scopes in Dayton, Tennessee. It is one of many candidates for the title of “American trial of ...

Rarely had a trial attracted such drama, amusement and frenzy as the 1920s Scopes Trial. Few had ever produced more column inches.  July 21st marks the ...

As the famous Scopes trial, a landmark case out of Dayton, Tennessee, celebrates its centennial anniversary, themes of the ...

The Scopes "Monkey trial" in 1925 in Tennessee wasn't supposed to be about Genesis versus Darwin, but that's the way it ...

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in ...

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