The anticipated Trial of the Century never happened. It was Darrow himself who went on trial. The accusation: bribery.

Learn how it was framed as a battle over the teaching of evolution, but the participants didn’t see it quite that way.

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 recalled that he had spoken in Champaign before, but the June 1925 speech by three-time presidential candidate William ...