Edward Larson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historical account of the “Scopes Trial,” will visit the U of A March 6 to explore the trial's enduring legacy as a cultural spectacle 100 years ...

Haven't we? No, not really. The Christian fundamentalism that begat the state law that John Scopes violated has not gone away ...

He persuaded a judge to spare their lives. The following year, he defended a Tennessee schoolteacher named John Scopes who was accused of teaching evolution. The duel between the agnostic Darrow ...

John Thomas Scopes came to Tennessee fresh out of college. In the spring of 1925, he had just completed his first year as science teacher and part-time football coach at the high school in the ...

John Scopes, the 24-year-old defendant, taught in the public high school in Dayton, Tenn., and included evolution in his curriculum. He agreed to be the focus of a test case attacking the new law ...

One might think that coming to grips with the Clarence Brown Theatre’s latest production, an intensely provocative staging of ...

One hundred years ago a young teacher, John T. Scopes, went on trial in Dayton, Tenn., for violating a recently enacted state law that forbade the state’s educators “to teach any theory that ...

In July 1925, a young science teacher named John Scopes was in court, accused of contravening the Butler Act—a Tennessee law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in schools. Explore ...

July 6, 1925 (UP) -- Application for an injunction to prevent the Scopes evolution trial at Dayton on Friday was expected to be filed here today by John R. Neal, chief counsel for the defense.