Dayton, Tennessee is a town of about 7,000 people in Southeast Tennessee. The town was the site of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925, pitting religion vs. science in public schools. A group of ...

DAYTON, TN – Inside a sweltering courtroom in July, a fierce debate was underway here in this small Tennessee town. Modern science versus religion and the battle over what is taught inside America’s ...

Dayton, Tennessee, business leaders in 1925 recognized that a hot-button trial could put their small town on the map. They recruited teacher John Thomas Scopes to challenge the state's Butler Act, in ...

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 ...

One hundred years ago, in Dayton, Tennessee, the Scopes “Monkey Trial” was underway, with the battle for children’s public education in the balance. This case has become infamous in American legal ...

(The Conversation) — The 1925 Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, was one of the earliest and most iconic ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — 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 law ...