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

The case ultimately reached the Tennessee Supreme Court, which upheld the law but acquitted Scopes on a technicality.Start ...

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

When a high-school teacher in Tennessee agreed to be prosecuted for teaching evolution, The New Yorker, still in its first ...

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

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

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 ...

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

John T. Scopes, the local teacher, was a willing participant in testing the anti-evolution law, and prosecutor William Jennings Bryan didn't die after the trial because he was defeated by defense ...

For decades, Dayton locals tried to forget about the town’s connection to the controversial 1925 trial. Now, they embrace it ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ed Larson, about the legacy of the Scopes Trial and the teaching of evolution in school, and its relevance today.

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