Sandra Herbert, Professor Emerita, Department of History, UMBC, speaks on Lincoln and Darwin as she delivers the 2009 Webb Lecture and Phi Beta Kappa Lecture. Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were each born on February 12, 1809. The enormity of their importance in their respective areas of interest politics for Lincoln, science for Darwin became apparent when each man was about fifty years old. They never met. Yet Lincoln was aware of and sympathetic to evolutionary views, and Darwin was keenly supportive of abolition. This lecture consider stheir lives and accomplishments in juxtaposition. (less info)