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

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 ...

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

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

Instead, it was about the competing ambitions of the two figures who would engage in a fervent battle over Scopes’s fate: ...

Weinberg, who died May 29 at the age of 91 from complications of cancer, collaborated with her late husband, Arthur, on six books on social history, including two on attorney Clarence Darrow.

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 ...