Chicago's Clarence Darrow battled the forces of religion that would dictate public education. A century later, the fight ...

A century ago, a Tennessee science teacher's fight to teach evolution ignited national controversy. But battles over school ...

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

New state laws requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms are facing legal challenges.

Hollywood didn’t ignore the play’s success either. In 1960, Inherit the Wind became a multiple Oscar-nominated film, ...

In July 1925, the tiny town of Dayton, Tennessee played host to what became the trial of the century of its day. The case ...

Oklahoma is forcing courts – as they did in Tennessee in 1925 – to wrestle with the question of how much religion is ...

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 ago, on July 10, 1925, the trial of John T. Scopes began.

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 ...

On the whole, Catholics in 1925 had little problem with the teaching of evolution. Most likely due to the teaching of Pope ...