Anti-evolution books were available for purchase in Dayton, Tenn., 100 years ago during the trial of Kentuckian John T. Scopes, charged with teaching about evolution during a biology lesson at Rhea ...

In the classic style of southern Appalachia, Dayton, Tennessee, has abandoned coal mines, epidemic obesity, and a median income that’s half the national average. Dayton is also famous, loosely ...

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in American history. A local substitute teacher, John Scopes, was charged with ...

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 ...

One hundred years ago today — July 21, 1925 — the Scopes trial wrapped up in Dayton, Tennessee. Teacher John Scopes was convicted and fined $100 for violating a Tennessee law that banned the teaching ...

Notes related to a famous 1925 trial were sold in auction to a private collector at Lion Heart Autographs this week, fetching $12,000. The notes were written by legendary attorney Clarence Darrow, a ...

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DAYTON, TENN., July 21. – The curtain rolled down today on the first act of the great evolution drama that for eleven days has been unfolding in the county courtroom here, and tonight the attorneys ...

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Today is Wednesday, May 5, the 125th day of 2010. There are 240 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America's first space traveler ...