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

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

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

A small town in eastern Tennessee courted national publicity and attention a century ago when local leaders planned a test ...

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

In 1925, the tiny, growing town of Dayton saw an economic opportunity in the ACLU's newspaper ads seeking a teacher to ...

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

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 ...

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

Things to Do Tired of put-downs, Tennessee town corrects the record with play about the Scopes trial it hosted Automated narration. Learn more ...

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