By any objective measure, the Scopes trial should arouse no greater attention in 2025 than Dayton’s 1925 Strawberry Festival. It set no legal precedent, led to no repeal of the Butler Act, and ...

God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation'—about the famous Scopes “monkey trial,” is timely. Then again, church-state conflicts simply never go away in the United States.

One hundred years ago today — July 21, 1925 — the Scopes trial wrapped up in Dayton, Tennessee. Teacher John Scopes was convicted and fined $100 for violating a Tennessee law that banned the teaching ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One hundred years ago, a public high school teacher stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching human evolution. His nation is still feeling the reverberations today. The ...

DAYTON, Tenn. -- It was yet another Trial of the Century -- one of those noisy spectacles that roll around every decade or so -- but this one wasn't about murder or celebrity kidnapping. Rather it ...

John T. Scopes in the courtroom. (Bettmann / Contributor/ Collections Bettman via Getty Images.) The 1925 Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by ...

Scopes Trial Play & Festivities in July. Rhea Heritage Preservation Foundation President Rick Dye announced that the play “Destiny in Dayton,” which tells the story of the 1925 Scopes Trial, will have ...

How monumental was the Scopes “Monkey Trial” of 1925 in Dayton, Tenn.? “It was the most famous event that the world was aware of at the time,” said Richard Baird, whose New Fortune Theatre Company is ...

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