At least one Augusta County school leader is jonesing for a redo of the overturned verdict in the Scopes trial.

“Inherit the Wind” runs for three weeks, from Sept. 12-28, in OTA’s Gathering Hall, 414 N. Sequim Ave., at 7 p.m. Fridays and ...

One hundred years since the Scopes Monkey Trial, and 70 years since its fictionalized retelling “Inherit the Wind” was first ...

Monkey Trial” reimagines the 1925 Scopes trial — the landmark courtroom clash over the teaching of Darwinian evolution in an ...

George A. Ferrell Elementary School in Picture Rocks will be celebrating its 100th anniversary on Sept. 26. Ferrell Elementary will celebrate its century of education along with Picture Rocks which is ...

In this 1992 column from the Free Press archive, Neal Rubin talks to the owners of the historical home of Dr. Ossian Sweet ...

100 years after the Scopes Monkey Trial, the religious conservative movement has seen rare gains recently with voucher laws and Supreme Court rulings. “From a historical perspective, you can’t help ...

The Peabody opened its location at 149 Union Ave. in Memphis on Sept. 1, 1925. To mark this centennial, here are 10 Peabody ...

Reading John K. Wilson’s essay about the Scopes trail (“100 Years Ago, the Scopes Monkey Trial Discovered Academic Freedom,” The Chronicle Review, July10), I was surprised by his affirmation that ...

I enjoyed reading Alan Levenson’s letter to the editor about the 100th anniversary of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial of 1925. Unlike far too many recounts of that event, which grossly distort the ...

On a recent summer evening, my wife was busy page-turning our copy of the weekly New Yorker magazine. Like many of us, the cartoons were the main attraction with occasional stops at articles that ...

In 1925, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee, where the law required the teaching of divine creation and prohibited ...