Tennessee became the first state in the country a hundred years ago to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms.

A newspaper editorial says, "Tennessee will be saved the ordeal of another trial in which a proud state is required to make a monkey of itself in a court of law." September: The Book of Legal ...

(AP) — They called it the “monkey trial.” It was supposed to be ... overturned on a technicality by the Tennessee Supreme Court. While the jury sided with the prosecution, the case generated ...

The first page of the Tennessee Supreme Court ruling on the appeal of the John T. Scopes vs. state of Tennessee trial, commonly known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, is shown at the Tennessee State ...