Tennessee became the first state in the country a hundred years ago to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms.

Butler Act banned Tennessee educators from teaching evolution, but the key lawamker later admitted that he didn't know ...

Also unusual was a Knoxville man involved in the trial. John Randolph Neal Jr. represented defendant John Scopes, the Rhea ...

The first page of the Tennessee Supreme Court ruling on the appeal of the John T. Scopes vs. state of Tennessee trial, commonly known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, is shown at the Tennessee State ...

(AP) — They called it the “monkey trial.” It was supposed to be a ... Dayton community leaders found 24-year-old John T. Scopes, who had just finished his first year of teaching, willing ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — They called it the “monkey trial.” It was supposed to be a publicity stunt. A hundred years later, it is remembered as far more. In March 1925, Tennessee became the ...