Brenda Wineapple: When Evolution Was on Trial
Brenda Wineapple: When Evolution Was on Trial  
Podcast: Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Published On: Tue Jan 28 2025
Description: In 1925, a trial in a small town in Tennessee riveted the nation. In the dock was a young man named John Scopes, charged with violating a state law outlawing the teaching of evolution. The trial exposed fault lines in society that are opening again today, a century later.