Arena Stage will present ACLU Panel: Scopes Trial on Wednesday, March 18, 2026, at 6:30 PM. The event is a pre-show panel discussion that connects the historic ACLU Scopes Trial to today’s ongoing ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One hundred years ...

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in American history, over... 100 years after evolution went on trial, the ...

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This year is the centennial of one of the most celebrated trials in American history. In Dayton, Tennessee, a local schoolteacher, John Scopes, volunteered to be the defendant. He was prosecuted for ...

John Thomas Scopes came to Tennessee fresh out of college. In the spring of 1925, he had just completed his first year as science teacher and part-time football coach at the high school in the little ...

The legendary Scopes "Monkey" Trial of 1925 is the main focus of The Milford Museum's latest program in their American History Series, so we explain the significance of this event.