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 ...

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 ...

In 1925, when he volunteered to defend John Scopes' right to teach evolution, Clarence Darrow had already reached the top of his profession. The year before, in a sensational trial in Chicago, he ...

Clarence Darrow, addressing the jury as a defendant, was never convicted of bribery, but his two trials shattered his reputation. Public Domain On a rainy night in Los Angeles in December 1911, ...

There are parallels between the anti-evolution trial of 1925 and our current politics in Wyoming, writes columnist David ...

Before O.J. Simpson’s “trial of the century,” another courtroom clash riveted America and merited that title. In the sleepy town of Dayton, Tenn., on July 10, 1925, the Scopes “Monkey Trial” was ...

This essay is adapted from Gregg Jarrett’s new book, "The Trial of the Century." I was barely a teenager when, one summer day, I plucked a single volume off my father’s densely packed bookshelf. That ...

Pennsylvania-based Wolfe House & Building Movers will oversee the uprooting and relocation of the hut. The company ...

Where: Olney Theatre, 2001 Olney-Spring Road, Olney, Md. When: Various times, now through Sept. 6 Info: $26 to $49; discounts available for students, military, students and groups; 301-924-3400; ...

Defense attorney Clarence Darrow, left, and prosecutor William Jennings Bryan speak with each other during the Scopes monkey trial in July 1925, in Dayton, Tenn. (AP Photo, File) Black and white ...

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 ...