America Magazine

100 years after the Scopes Monkey Trial: religion, science and the era of eugenic racism

This summer marks the 100th anniversary of the Scopes Trial. On July 21, 1925, a jury in Dayton, Tenn., convicted John Scopes, a high school science teacher, of violating the state’s Butler Act, which ...
National Catholic Register

Truth Cannot Contradict Truth: The Scopes Trial 100 Years Later

“When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, / the moon and stars that you set in place — / What is man that you are mindful of him, / and a son of man that you care for him?/ Yet you have made ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

100 Years Ago, the Scopes Monkey Trial Discovered Academic Freedom

O n July 10, 1925, a 24-year-old high-school teacher named John Scopes was put on trial in Dayton, Tennessee for the crime of teaching Darwinian theory. He’d violated the newly passed Butler Act, ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

The Scopes ‘Monkey Trial’: 100 years later

One hundred years ago, on July 10, 1925, the trial of John T. Scopes began. It concluded 11 days later with a conviction. Today, this battle in the conflict over religion and science in United States ...
WBUR

Reflecting on the Scopes trial, 100 years later

The cover of "The Hundred Years' Trial" and author Harold Gouzoules (top) and Alexander Gouzoules (bottom). (Courtesy of Johns Hopkins University Press, Emory University and Samantha Xia) One hundred ...
The Christian Century

The Scopes Monkey Trial and the evolution of fundamentalism

On July 10, 1925, the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, became the unlikely epicenter of a clash that reverberated through US history for a century. The trial of John T. Scopes, a young high school ...
Christian Science Monitor

Remembering Scopes: How 100-year-old ‘Monkey Trial’ helped shape evangelical Christianity

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 ...
The New York Times

This ‘Trial of the Century’ Is 100. Its Lessons Could Save the Democrats.

Mr. Kazin is a professor of history at Georgetown University. In July 1925, John Scopes faced a jury in a stifling courtroom in Dayton, Tenn. A 24-year-old teacher, he stood accused of violating the ...
Tennessean

Trial of the century: Why 100 years later, the Scopes case still matters

DAYTON, TN – Inside a sweltering courtroom in July, a fierce debate was underway here in this small Tennessee town. Modern science versus religion and the battle over what is taught inside America’s ...
USA Today

100 years after the Scopes trial, Americans are still divided over what kids should learn

In July 1925, the small town of Dayton, Tennessee played host to one of the most high-profile trials of its day. It became known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, and it pitted science versus religion in ...
NPR

100 years after evolution went on trial, the Scopes case still reverberates

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 ...