Trial and Error: The Courtroom Battle that Still Divides Us

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In 1925, John Scopes, a high school biology teacher in rural Tennessee, was indicted for violating a new state law against teaching evolution. The record of his trial is a textbook all its own for today. A century later the very issues that played out in a small-town courthouse––from politics to religion and everything in between––still divide Americans.

Join Natalia and Angela as they grapple with the engaging, sometimes frightening, and always illuminating experience of reading Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial that Riveted a Nation, by Brenda Wineapple.

Resources:

Brenda Wineapple Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial that Riveted a Nation
Associated Press news “The Taliban publish vice laws that ban women's voices and bare faces in public”
Vox.com How the Republican Party went from Lincoln to Trump
Vox.com From white supremacy to Barack Obama: The history of the Democratic Party
Alexandra Alter “From School Librarian to Activist: ‘The Hate Level and the Vitriol Is Unreal”

Transition Music:

Humans Win “Sunshine Strum”
Volodymyr Piddubnyk “Minimal documentary background music”

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Music (for regular episodes):
"Curious Documentary" by Jon Presstone (intro and transitions)
"I Feel Fire" by we20fifty (outro)