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 ...

Scopes Monkey Trial got underway.  WGN Radio brought it to the nation. This article talks about all that and quotes John Williams in a few places, including the ...

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The law books record it as State of Tennessee v. John T. Scopes. History remembers it as the “ Monkey Trial .” The case ...

Scopes was the first-ever battle in the culture wars,” said Edward Larson, a historian and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author ...

On July 10, 1925, a 24-year-old high-school teacher named John Scopes was put on trial in Dayton, Tennessee for the crime of ...