1896: William Jennings Bryan stepped onto the podium at the Democratic National Convention inside the Chicago Coliseum at ...

In 1925, a teacher deliberately broke a law stating that evolution could not be taught in Tennessee classrooms. His trial ...

Chicago's Clarence Darrow battled the forces of religion that would dictate public education. A century later, the fight ...

A small town in Tennessee courted national publicity a century ago when it recruited a local teacher to challenge a state law ...

Two great grandsons of William Jennings Bryan visited his birthplace museum in Salem on Monday. Both William Forsyth and ...

A hundred years later, many religious Americans in rural areas still feel that the cosmopolitan leaders of the Democratic ...

Tensions between religion and science erupted in a hot and humid courtroom in Dayton, Tenn., 100 years ago this month.

The Sooners lost Billy Bowman to the NFL Draft, but Oklahoma has a ready-made leader in Robert Spears-Jennings primed to step ...

Say their names.

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.

Dayton, Tennessee was the center of the world's attention.A biology teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching Ch ...

It is the story of Bertram Cates (John Scopes), a young biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who is arrested and stands ...