(Courthouse photo by Robert Buckman) One hundred years ago this July, the nation’s media were riveted on a trial in the unlikely venue of the small town of Dayton, Tennessee. It wasn’t a sensational murder trial like that of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold in Chicago the year before, but a seemingly mundane misdemeanor that captivated the country’s attention and became part of American popular culture.| Quill
Author’s Note: July 2025 will mark the centenary of the famous Tennessee “Scopes Monkey Trial.” This is the second article in a series leading up to the centennial events in Dayton, Tennessee, the site of the trial. Read the first in the series here. A century ago, the world’s greatest three-ring circus was about to […]| Minding The Campus
Gregg Jarrett like most of the “journalists” on Cable TV writes a book and, apparently, as part of his remuneration, can market the book through the cable broadcast (marketing is the backbone of selling books). In this case, he has written something called The Trial of the Century.| Abbeville Institute