Lecture with Brenda Wineapple

Brenda Wineapple, Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation

In 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee, John Scopes was charged with breaking the new law that banned the teaching of evolution in public schools.  His trial became an international sensation, with brilliant and famous personalities – one, a former presidential candidate – representing the opposing sides during the so-called Roaring Twenties.  Keeping the Faith brings to life this trial, its combatants, and the way it exposed profound divisions in America that still resonate today, over the meaning of freedom, religion, education, and civil liberties in a democracy.  A former fellow at the Dorothy B. and Lewis Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment, Wineapple has received such honors as the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and her essays and reviews regularly appear in The New York Review of Books among other publications.

This lecture will be held at Bedford Playhouse (633 Old Post Rd, Bedford, NY) due to ongoing construction at John Jay Homestead.

6:30 – Reception with light refreshments
7:00 – Lecture begins
8:00 – Book signing

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