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

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 ...

This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the infamous trial of The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, better known as the Scopes Monkey Trial. Much of what happened during this circus of a ...

I spend a lot of time in my head, lost in thought. It’s something I have always done and it’s been misunderstood by those around me the whole time. Teachers at Selma Street School would send ...

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 ...

Jones Joins national experts to reflect on the 100th anniversary of a landmark case that shaped American education and civil liberties President John E. Jones III ’77, P’11, joined legal scholars, ...

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 ...

In the summer of 1925, a high school biology teacher in Tennessee named John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution to his students. At the time, Tennessee law ...

In the summer of 1925, a high school biology teacher in Tennessee named John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution to his students. At the time, Tennessee law ...

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 ...

In the summer of 1925, a high school biology teacher in Tennessee named John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution to his students. At the time, Tennessee law ...

If the Scopes “Monkey” Trial is discussed nowadays, the tone usually is pejorative. The events of July 1925 — in which a small-town substitute teacher was charged with a misdemeanor for teaching ...