The Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton, shown on Feb. 13, was the scene of the famous Scopes Trial in 1925. The courthouse has a museum dedicated to the trial in its basement and also has statues of ...

The six finalists performed for a packed house at the Brightside in downtown Dayton on Saturday, March 8, 2025.

T his spring the University of Tennessee at Knoxville marks the centennial of the Scopes “monkey trial,” the showdown over the teaching of Darwinian evolution held in Dayton in the summer of 1925.

Police responded to large St. Patrick’s Day crowds at the University of Dayton after reports of gunfire near Jasper Street.

No one was injured as a result of the gunfire, according to the University. The Dayton officer who was taken to the hospital ...

It only seems like Gibson Jimerson has been playing basketball at St. Louis University forever. The sixth-year senior plays ...

We are failing an open-book history exam, not to mention abandoning our ideals of providing a “holistic education.” We’re renovating a less than 20-year-old gym, but cutting concentrations for English ...

Whether self-made or inheritors, they’re serious about giving today and are poised to shape philanthropy in the coming ...

One of the people who was instrumental in founding the Dayton Christian School died Saturday at age 90. President Emeritus Claude E. Schindler, known as Bud, devoted more than 60 years to educating ...

It is also likely to include one other important singular event − the 1925 Scopes Trial in Dayton, when the creationism vs ... Under glass tables are rare historic books, photographs, important UT ...