The famously agnostic attorney and Hyde Park resident fought a Tennessee law that banned teaching evolution in a case that drew national attention a century ago.

Trump’s actions are an attempt to tilt the scales of justice by using the raw power of government coercion—and they’re ...

The Scopes trial became sensational largely because it brought together two long-time adversaries and powerful speakers William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow. Bryan, a former secretary of state ...

As he has done every year for almost two decades, Scott Burgh, a retired law library director, descended the grassy incline ...

Nina Helstein has been celebrating the memory of lawyer and Hyde Park resident Clarence Darrow with other Chicagoans nearly every March 13 at a bridge named after him in Jackson Park since she was ...

1958: Nathan Leopold, who was convicted with Richard Loeb in the “perfect murder” of Bobby Franks in 1924, was released from Stateville prison in Joliet on the 20th anniversary of his attorney ...

T his spring the University of Tennessee at Knoxville marks the centennial of the Scopes “monkey trial,” the showdown over ...

It was the great defense attorney Clarence Darrow who was credited with positing that lost causes are the only ones worth ...

Nina Helstein has been celebrating the memory of lawyer and Hyde Park resident Clarence Darrow with other Chicagoans nearly every March 13 at a bridge named after him in Jackson Park since she was a ...

A blockbuster case The Scopes trial became sensational largely because it brought together two long-time adversaries and powerful speakers William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow. Bryan ...

The Scopes trial became sensational largely because it brought together two long-time adversaries and powerful speakers William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow. Bryan, a former secretary of ...