Before O.J. Simpson’s “trial of the century,” another courtroom clash riveted America and merited that title. In the sleepy town of Dayton, Tenn., on July 10, 1925, the Scopes “Monkey Trial” was ...
I was proud of the Asheville Citizen Times for publishing on Friday, July 11, the story of the “Trial of the century,” which was the Scopes trial of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. This was the famous ...
The resulting trial was made famous almost immediately as a contest between—take your pick—Darwin and the Bible; science and ...