The Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute invites you to a lecture by Dr. Katherine Carté, Professor of History at SMU, marking the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. This is the second event in the 2026 Godbey Anniversary Lecture Series. 

Many Americans think of the American Revolution as a time of national unity, when the people were particularly united through their shared faith. But how effective really was religion at overcoming national divisions at that moment of political crisis?

Katherine Carté is a professor of history at Southern Methodist University specializing in religion in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic. She is the author, most recently, of Religion and the American Revolution: An Imperial History, published by the University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture in 2021, which won the Albert W. Outler Prize from the American Society of Church History. She is currently studying the role of religion, trust, and partisanship in Revolutionary-era Savannah, Georgia.