High school teacher John Scopes (center), in 1925 became the first person charged for violating a Tennessee law making it illegal for anyone in a state-supported school to teach theories of evolution.

As the famous Scopes trial, a landmark case out of Dayton, Tennessee, celebrates its centennial anniversary, themes of the case continue to be felt today.

The 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial” in Tennessee, where a teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution, continues to influence debates on religion in public schools. The trial highlighted tensions ...

Tennessee was prosecuting John T. Scopes for violating a 1925 law forbidding public schools and universities to teach the theory of evolution. One of the first true media spectacles in US history, the ...

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Despite its rather genial outcome (the Tennessee Supreme Court overturned Mr. Scopes’s conviction on a technicality), echoes from the “trial of the century” still resound in American culture ...