Tennessee became the first state in the country a hundred years ago to ban the teaching of evolution in public school ...

Also unusual was a Knoxville man involved in the trial. John Randolph Neal Jr. represented defendant John Scopes, the Rhea ...

The famously agnostic attorney and Hyde Park resident fought a Tennessee law that banned teaching evolution in a case that ...

The Scopes trial, also called the 'monkey trial,' was a landmark legal case in 1925 Tennessee that challenged a ban on teaching evolution in schools. Initially a publicity stunt, it became a ...

FILE - Defense attorney Clarence Darrow, left, and prosecutor William Jennings Bryan speak with each other during the Scopes monkey trial in July 1925, in Dayton, Tenn. (AP Photo, File ...

The eventual upshot: a legal battle that became one of the ... state of Tennessee trial, commonly known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, is shown at the Tennessee State Library and Archives in ...

They called it the “monkey trial ... The eventual upshot: a legal battle that became one of the most renowned in the nation's history. Historians say the trial started as a tourism gambit ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — They called it the “monkey trial.” It was supposed to be a publicity stunt. A hundred years later, it is remembered as far more.