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 ...

Darrow is striking it rich by scouring the internet for corporate misdeeds. But one of its revenue sources—sharing legal awards—raises ethical concerns among some lawyers. At first glance, a 2021 ...

The centennial of the Scopes trial has come and gone. For at least this calendar year, the print media gave substantial attention to what happened in and outside the Rhea County Courthouse in July ...

The Scopes Monkey Trial, while ostensibly about evolution vs. creationism, highlighted the question of parental control over school curricula. The author argues for upholding academic freedom, guided ...

In the race to replace 14th Judicial Circuit Judge Larry Vandersnick, Clarence Darrow of Rock Island won the Democratic nomination in a three-way race Tuesday. Darrow got 10,652 votes, to defeat Trish ...

One hundred years ago this month, Americans became fixated on a sensational jury trial in Dayton, Tennessee. Famed trial attorney Clarence Darrow and lawyer-orator William Jennings Bryan faced off in ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a weekly series on our region’s history coordinated by the Trumbull County Historical Society. In 1925, during one of the hottest summers anyone could remember, hundreds ...

(RNS) It happened exactly 100 years ago this month, and the gavel has still not completely come down. Having nothing better to do the other evening, I decided to treat myself to an evening of Amazon ...

Some in our society seem to think that the Creator has somehow been disproved by science, that evolution is a proven fact, that the Scopes Monkey Trial 100 years ago this month helped settle the ...

Before O.J. Simpson’s “trial of the century,” another courtroom clash riveted America and merited that title. In the sleepy town of Dayton, Tenn., on July 10, 1925, the Scopes “Monkey Trial” was ...

It was called “the trial of the century,” and it brought a circus-like atmosphere and a compelling cast of characters to a small-town courthouse in Dayton, TN during the sweltering July of 1925. The ...

William Jennings Bryan (left) and Clarence Darrow. (CNA/Wikimedia Commons) Less than 70 years after Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species,” the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, became the ...