Nellie Kenyon, who was a rare female reporter 100 years ago, wrote about how Dayton, Tennessee, was preparing for the Scopes ...

This is part of a weekly series on our region’s history coordinated by the Trumbull County Historical Society. In ...

Newspapers dubbed it ‘The Trial of the Century.’ As grandiose as that description may sound, it might have been an ...

Oh how times have changed. Or have they? Take a glance at local stories from years past.

It was called “the trial of the century,” and it brought a circus-like atmosphere and a compelling cast of characters to a ...

The Scopes trial characterized Dayton as an uneducated town of Christian fundamentalists, a narrative locals have long tried ...

Jesuit Father John Conley, a theology professor at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, is pictured in this undated photo ...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning author claims the controversial Scopes "Monkey" Trial is as relevant and impactful today as it was ...

DAYTON, Tenn. (AP) — For over 30 years, people in Rhea County have put on a play every July using the trial transcript, aiming to correct the record.

DAYTON, Tenn. (AP) — A small town in eastern Tennessee courted national publicity and attention a century ago when local leaders planned a test trial over the teaching of evolution in public ...