A small town in Tennessee courted national publicity a century ago when it recruited a local teacher to challenge a state law ...

A small town in Tennessee courted publicity when it recruited a teacher to challenge a law banning the teaching of evolution.

Historian and author Brenda Wineapple joins Morning Joe to discuss her new book 'Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the ...

As the famous Scopes trial, a landmark case out of Dayton, Tennessee, celebrates its centennial anniversary, themes of the case continue to be felt today.

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

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 ...

Thursday’s film screening had a turnout of more than 80 people. Before the movie, attendees heard from retired Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Bill Cunningham, who gave a history of the ...

One hundred years ago, a public high school teacher stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching human evolution. His ...

A federal appeals court has canceled plea deals with three men accused of orchestrating the 9/11 attacks, deepening the legal ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Thursday that he will impose retaliatory tariffs on ...

Few criminal trials in recent history have piqued the public interest like Erin Patterson’s conviction for poisoning three ...