He was the Attorney for the Damned, the Great Defender, the champion of free thought who skewered biblical literalism at the Scopes Monkey Trial and the master courtroom rhetorician whose three-day ...

In 1925, when he volunteered to defend John Scopes' right to teach evolution, Clarence Darrow had already reached the top of his profession. The year before, in a sensational trial in Chicago, he ...

Winters' Time' delves into one of Vermont's most famous murder trials, involving a severed head, the death penalty and a ...

The claim: Mark Twain said, 'I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.' After the death of conservative media personality Rush Limbaugh on Feb. 17, some social ...

This essay is adapted from Gregg Jarrett’s new book, "The Trial of the Century." I was barely a teenager when, one summer day, I plucked a single volume off my father’s densely packed bookshelf. That ...

Nina Helstein has been celebrating the memory of lawyer and Hyde Park resident Clarence Darrow with other Chicagoans nearly every March 13 at a bridge named after him in Jackson Park since she was a ...

In his new book, Jeff Amestoy outlines the case against John Winters and how and why Clarence Darrow came to argue on his ...

Where: Olney Theatre, 2001 Olney-Spring Road, Olney, Md. When: Various times, now through Sept. 6 Info: $26 to $49; discounts available for students, military, students and groups; 301-924-3400; ...

Creeley says that an employee’s right to free speech depends on whether their company is private, or government or publicly ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- People gathered Friday to honor famed Hyde Park attorney Clarence Darrow on the 78th anniversary of the death. Flowers were tossed this morning off the Darrow Bridge in Jackson Park.

Iowa Labor History Society was formed almost a decade ago to preserve and promote the history of Iowa's workers, which in turn helped shape the history of the state. The ILHS is bringing the true ...