Why Lincoln and Darwin?

Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 4:30pm

Speakers: 

Melvin King

Urban Studies and Planning, MIT

John Stauffer

Program in the History of American Civilization, Harvard University

Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and the shared Birthday of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln

Speakers including:

  • "Why Lincoln and Darwin?" Jonathan King
  • "The Words and Lives of Abolitionists" Helen Elaine Lee
  • "A View from the Community" Melvin King
  • Music by the St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church Choir and the Americana String Band
  • With Benediction by Rev. Leslie Sterling of St. Bartholomew's

Free and open to the public.

Co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Darwin Society, the MIT Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, and the MIT Dean of the School of Science.

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