Join the NYS Writers Institute for a conversation with acclaimed historian Brenda Wineapple about her new examination of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial, Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation (Aug. 2024).

Brenda Wineapple
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, 2025
NYS Museum -- Huxley Theatre
222 Madison Avenue
Albany NY 12230

Free and open to the public.
Books will be sold and a signing will follow the conversation.

“No subject possesses the minds of men like religious bigotry and hate, and these fires are being lighted today in America.” So said legendary attorney Clarence Darrow in 1925 as hundreds of people descended on the sleepy town of Dayton, Tennessee, for the trial of schoolteacher John T. Scopes, who was charged with breaking the law by teaching evolution to his biology class in a public school. Ken Burns called it,
“Propulsive . . . a terrific story about a pivotal moment in our history.”

Cosponsored by the New York State Education Department’s Office of Cultural Education, the New York State Museum, and UAlbany’s School of Criminal Justice’s “Justice and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century Project.”