This is the centennial year for the Scopes “monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, 1925’s “trial of the century”. In the dock was John Scopes, a substitute high school teacher who was accused of ...

In July 1925, John Thomas Scopes, a Tennessee high school teacher, was tried for teaching that man descended from a lower order of animals, in violation of a recently passed state law. Hundreds of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — They called it the “monkey trial.” It was supposed to be a publicity stunt. A hundred years later, it is remembered as far more. In March 1925, Tennessee became the first state ...

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