Nina Helstein has been celebrating the memory of lawyer and Hyde Park resident Clarence Darrow with other Chicagoans nearly every March 13 at a bridge named after him in Jackson Park since she was a ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The courthouse clash of Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan pitted modernism against fundamentalism. (Steve Brodner / For ...

Clarence Darrow was a trial attorney made famous for his defense of a Tennessee educator accused of breaking a state law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools. Bettmann / Corbis Clarence ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — They called it the “monkey trial.” It was supposed to be a publicity stunt. A hundred years later, it is remembered as far more. In March 1925, Tennessee became the first state in ...

Some in our society seem to think that the Creator has somehow been disproved by science, that evolution is a proven fact, that the Scopes Monkey Trial 100 years ago this month helped settle the ...

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Around 100 years ago, a trial over a Tennessee teacher's lessons on evolution captured the attention of the nation and highlighted a growing tension between religious fundamentalism ...

He was the Attorney for the Damned, the Great Defender, the champion of free thought who skewered biblical literalism at the Scopes Monkey Trial and the master courtroom rhetorician whose three-day ...