A small town in Tennessee courted national publicity a century ago when it recruited a local teacher to challenge a state law ...

Tensions between religion and science erupted in a hot and humid courtroom in Dayton, Tenn., 100 years ago this month.

1896: William Jennings Bryan stepped onto the podium at the Democratic National Convention inside the Chicago Coliseum at ...

One hundred years ago, a public school teacher was put on trial for teaching the theory of evolution. The Scopes Monkey Trial ...

Dayton, Tennessee was the center of the world's attention.A biology teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching Ch ...

As the famous Scopes trial, a landmark case out of Dayton, Tennessee, celebrates its centennial anniversary, themes of the ...

On this day in 1896, William Jennings Bryan of Lincoln, Nebraska, delivered his famous “Cross of Gold” speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Bryan argued that allowing the free ...

Opinion American populists used to run against tariffs. It could happen again. William Jennings Bryan stoked a worker revolt against protectionism that led to the first income tax.

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in ...

On July 10, 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.

Sitter William Jennings Bryan, 19 Mar 1860 - 26 Jul 1925 Credit Line National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Date 1900 Object number NPG.83.177 Restrictions & Rights CC0 Type Print Medium ...