Dayton was in an economic slump, and the town's movers and shakers thought a sensational trial would put Dayton "on the map." John Scopes was playing tennis when a group of businessmen called him ...

May 5: At a meeting in Robinson's drugstore in Dayton, Tennessee, science teacher John Scopes agrees to become the ACLU's defendant in a trial testing the Tennessee anti-evolution law. May 13 ...

The 1925 Scopes trial pitted the great defense attorney of the time, Clarence Darrow, against the three-time presidential candidate Williams Jennings Bryan, labeled "the Great Commoner." ...

Roughly a century ago, the trial of John T. Scopes marked a flash point in an American culture war—between religious faith ...