One of the most sensational court cases in twentieth century America, the Scopes Monkey Trial went infinitely beyond the boundaries of law and the courtroom to question the social, intellectual, and cultural values of America. The explosive and...

The Scopes "Monkey Trial" is the best-known example of the conflict over the teaching of evolution in the United States. Even though most scientists in the 1920s were sure that biology could not be taught without reference to evolution,...

The "Scopes Trial" (Scopes v. State, 152 Tenn. 424, 278 S.W. 57 (Tenn. 1925), often called the "Scopes Monkey Trial") was an American legal case that tested a law passed on March 13, 1925, which forbade the teaching, in any state-funded educational...

What if the research agenda of the University of Texas College of Natural Sciences were drafted not by the professors who actually conduct the studies but by, say, the alumni who funded the department? We might end up with research on the stickiness...

Caudill, Edward and Edward J. Larson. The Scopes Trial: A Photographic History. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000. 112 pp. $18.95. For twelve hot days in the summer of 1925, the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, was the scene of the Scopes trial,...

Barack Obama could have lived anywhere. He was born in Hawaii, had family in Kenya, worked in New York and went to school in California and Massachusetts.But he settled here, in a prominent neighborhood on Chicago's South Side that has a history of influential residents....

On a recent afternoon, the French celebrity philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy strolled around Manhattan's Upper East Side, trying to summon the spirit of Alexis de Tocqueville, the brilliant French chronicler of 19th-century American society. Mr. Lévy was having a hard time; perhaps the knot of S.U.V.'s...

The Scopes Trial depicted the different beliefs of the North and the South on the ideas of evolution.

This essay discusses the most important aspects of the Scopes Trial of 1925.