Quinn Ryan and WGN radio made history in Dayton. The Scopes trial was the first live broadcast of a trial in American history.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Scopes Monkey trial captivated the nation in a battle of classroom teachings. DAYTON, TN – Inside a sweltering courtroom in ...

Charles Darwin's Origin of Species is published. Its revolutionary theory of natural selection will have profound effects on both the scientific world and society at large. March 21: Tennessee ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The star attorneys of the Scopes trial: Clarence Darrow, left, for the defense and William Jennings Bryan for the prosecution.

Learn how it was framed as a battle over the teaching of evolution, but the participants didn’t see it quite that way. In the summer of 1925, journalists, lawyers, and gawkers alike descended upon ...

July 10 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1925, the so-called Monkey Trial, in which John Scopes was accused of teaching evolution in school, a violation of state law, began in Dayton, Tenn., ...

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 first state ...

Jesuit Fr. John Conley, a theology professor at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, is pictured in this undated photo. Conley has a keen interest in the history of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 ...

Having nothing better to do the other evening, I decided to treat myself to an evening of Amazon Prime — and watching, once again, one of my favorite movies. I discussed this movie, and its ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Ask Americans about the Scopes trial, and they might have heard of it as the “trial of the century,” a showdown over teaching human evolution. Less well known are its origins. As historian Edward J.