Alex Cope, PhD

"The first trial of the century, in the modern sense, began on July 10th, 1925. Formally, the case is known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes. You may know this trial by a different name: the "Scopes Monkey Trial," as it was likely referred to in your high school US history textbooks. The defendant was high school teacher John Scopes for teaching human evolution in violation of Tennessee law."