But is that really the case? Popular history tells us that science teacher John Thomas Scopes was put on trial for daring to ...

The Scopes trial has long been depicted as a clash between modern science and religious fundamentalism. But it was also a chapter in the eugenic racism that had become a creed of social elites in the ...

Both then and today, the widely publicized trial has been portrayed as a microcosm of an asserted battle between "science" ...

The modern Christian nationalist movement has learned from the past. It can win court cases by securing control of the courts ...

Nobody was surprised when a Tennessee jury found coach and substitute teacher John T. Scopes guilty of teaching evolution to ...

Catholic intellectuals of the time were already engaging with evolutionary theory in a more open-minded way. That willingness ...

Teacher John Scopes was convicted and fined $100 for violating a Tennessee law that banned the teaching of evolution because it contradicted the Bible.

They tried to match wits. One even argued to the death. It was, no doubt, the trial of the century. Now, 100 years after what became known as the Scopes Monkey Trial in July 1925, the nation once ...

Hollywood didn’t ignore the play’s success either. In 1960, Inherit the Wind became a multiple Oscar-nominated film, featuring stars Spencer Tracy, Frederic March, and Gene Kelly. Three made-for-TV ...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning author claims the controversial Scopes "Monkey" Trial is as relevant and impactful today as it was ...

When a high-school teacher in Tennessee agreed to be prosecuted for teaching evolution, The New Yorker, still in its first ...

DAYTON, Tenn. — A small town in eastern Tennessee courted national publicity and attention a century ago when local leaders ...