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

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

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

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

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

It is the story of Bertram Cates (John Scopes), a young biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who is arrested and stands ...

July 10 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial, when science and religion was put on trial in ...

A staged legal proceeding in a small town became the catalyst for a century of culture wars.

For a century, this small Tennessee town in Rhea County just north of Chattanooga has been known as “Monkey Town USA” in reference to the famous 1925 Scopes trial that pitted religion vs. evolution in ...

During the Scopes Trial over teaching evolution in public school, modern science clashed with religion. Its effects helped ...

Long-tailed macaques given short videos were glued to scenes of fighting—especially when the combatants were monkeys they ...

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...