This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the infamous trial of The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, better known ...

保持爱读文章，保持领先！1925年7月，约翰·斯科普斯（John Scopes）在田纳西州代顿市一间闷热的法庭中接受陪审团审判。这位年仅24岁的教师被控 ...

In 1925, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in ...

John Scopes, immortalized since as the Scopes Monkey Trial. For eight days, the small community was the center of the media world and a focus of national and international attention.

John Thomas Scopes, second from left, stands in the courtroom during his trial for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution to high school science students in Dayton, Tenn., July 1925.

The aging Bryan died the Sunday following the trial. John Scopes left a hostile Dayton and went to — guess where — Chicago, to study geology in a doctorate program at the University of Chicago.

John Scopes was to have Clarence Darrow, America's top criminal lawyer, defend him. The famous politician and anti-evolutionist, William Jennings Bryan, volunteered to assist the prosecution.

Schoolteacher John Thomas Scopes, 24, of Dayton, Tenn., stands before Judge Raulston just before he was found guilty of teaching evolution and fined $100 on July 21, 1925, at the end of the Scopes ...

FILE - This 1925 file photo shows high school biology teacher John T. Scopes who was charged with violating a Tennessee law that forbids the teaching of the theory of evolution in public schools.

This photograph, taken on 20 July 1925, is one of 52 previously unpublished pictures of the ‘monkey trial’, in which the state of Tennessee found John Scopes guilty of teaching evolution. The ...