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 ...
NPR

100 years later, what's the legacy of the Scopes trial?

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ed Larson, about the legacy of the Scopes Trial and the teaching of evolution in school, and its relevance today. This month marks 100 ...
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 ...
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 ...