On July 21, 1925, the so-called Monkey Trial, which pitted Clarence Darrow against William Jennings Bryan in Dayton, Tenn., ...

DAYTON, Tenn. - In 1925, two of America's most renowned figures faced off in the southeast Tennessee town of Dayton to debate a burning issue - whether man evolved over millions of years or was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photograph shows William Jennings Bryan (seated, left, with fan) and Clarence Darrow (standing, center, with arms folded) at an ...

Emmy and Golden Globe honoree Ed Asner and John Heard star in the LA Theatre Works production of The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial, a meticulous transcription of the Scopes trial, the 1925 event that ...

Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee had already won two Peabody Awards for their work in radio when they started pitching ...