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 ...

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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

BRAINERD — When an email from ‘ILHS’ appeared in his inbox, Patrick Spradlin nearly deleted it unread. “I thought it was spam, or at worst a scam,” he said. “I didn’t know what ‘ILHS’ stood for or who ...

Iowa Labor History Society was formed almost a decade ago to preserve and promote the history of Iowa's workers, which in turn helped shape the history of the state. The ILHS is bringing the true ...

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 ...

Clarence Darrow Bridge, which overlooks the lagoon south of the Museum of Science and Industry, is one of the few remnants of the famous landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted’s original vision for ...

One hundred years ago this month, Americans became fixated on a sensational jury trial in Dayton, Tennessee. Famed trial attorney Clarence Darrow and lawyer-orator William Jennings Bryan faced off in ...