A century ago today, America fixed its attention on a Dayton courthouse. Tennessee was prosecuting John T. Scopes for ...

Chicago's Clarence Darrow battled the forces of religion that would dictate public education. A century later, the fight ...

Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing ...

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

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

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 ...

The Scopes "Monkey trial" in 1925 in Tennessee wasn't supposed to be about Genesis versus Darwin, but that's the way it ...

John Scopes, a skinny, bespectacled 24-year-old, was convicted in a sensationalized courtroom battle. His crime: teaching ...

Dayton, Tennessee was the center of the world's attention.A biology teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching Ch ...

One hundred years ago, a public school teacher was put on trial for teaching the theory of evolution. The Scopes Monkey Trial ...

On July 10, 1925, in a Tennessee courtroom, a high-school teacher named John Scopes was tried for presenting the concept of ...