Tennessee became the first state in the country a hundred years ago to ban the teaching of evolution in public school ...

Butler Act banned Tennessee educators from teaching evolution, but the key lawamker later admitted that he didn't know ...

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The famously agnostic attorney and Hyde Park resident fought a Tennessee law that banned teaching evolution in a case that ...

According to the Tennessee State Library, Dayton community leaders found 24-year-old John T. Scopes, who had just finished his first year of teaching, willing to take up the test case. Scopes was ...

The first page of the Tennessee Supreme Court ruling on the appeal of the John T. Scopes vs. state of Tennessee trial, commonly known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, is shown at the Tennessee State ...

Here's a look at what you need to know about the Scopes trial: No. In 1859, British naturalist Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species,” which explained his theory of evolution by ...

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 ...