representing his crusade against evolution as outdated, self-serving, or dangerously narrow-minded. Browse political cartoons about Bryan and the trial in this gallery.

American journalist H. L. Mencken dubbed it the “Monkey Trial.” The facts are these: A high school science teacher, John Scopes, was being tried for violating the Butler Act, a recently passed ...

Clarence Darrow, on why he took on the defense of John Scopes at the 'monkey trial' The trial in Dayton ... "creationism is a ...

Roughly a century ago, the trial of John T ... and a way of coming to terms with our own fractured political present. The ...

And a young man named John Scopes went on trial for teaching Darwin's theory ... William Jennings Bryan, a political and religious leader of the day, had campaigned hard for Prohibition and ...

His new book, "The Trial of the Century," about the famous "Scopes Monkey Trial" is available ... The Story of the Greatest Mass Delusion in American Political History."Read More During his ...