An Anti-Evolution League holds a books sales at the opening of the Scopes "Monkey" Trial in which biology teacher John T. Scopes is being prosecuted for teaching evolution in his class An ...

Scopes’ conviction was later overturned by the Tennessee Supreme Court on a technicality. By any objective measure, the Scopes trial should arouse no greater attention in 2025 than Dayton’s 1925 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. In the summer of 1925, a high school biology ...

This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the infamous trial of The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, better known as the Scopes Monkey Trial. Much of what happened during this circus of a ...

Scopes Trial Play & Festivities in July. Rhea Heritage Preservation Foundation President Rick Dye announced that the play “Destiny in Dayton,” which tells the story of the 1925 Scopes Trial, will have ...

DAYTON, Tenn. (AP) — A small town in eastern Tennessee courted national publicity and attention a century ago when local leaders planned a test trial over the teaching of evolution in public schools.

In 1925, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee, where the law required the teaching of divine creation and prohibited ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Watson Davis (1896-1967), who became ...

Reading John K. Wilson’s essay about the Scopes trail (“100 Years Ago, the Scopes Monkey Trial Discovered Academic Freedom,” The Chronicle Review, July10), I was surprised by his affirmation that ...

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