2009 is the 200th anniversary of the births of both Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln.  The father of evolution and savior of the Union are often imagined as inhabiting very different worlds, and yet were exact contemporaries.  Read more on Lincoln, Darwin, evolution, and the Civil War at Your Library.

 

February 2009

Bennett, Leronne.  Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream.  E457.2 B44 2000

Boritt, Gabor.  The Historian’s Lincoln: Pseudohistory, Psychohistory, and History.  E457.4 H65 1988

Bowlby, John.  Charles Darwin: A New Life.  QH31 D2 B742 1991

Bowler, Peter.  Monkey Trials & Gorilla Sermons.  BS651 B755 2007

Browne, Janet.  Darwin’s Origin of Species.  QH31 D2 B843 2006

Cunningham, Mary.  God and Evolution.  BT712 G63 2007

Delbanco, Andrew.  The Portable Abraham Lincoln.  E457.92 1992

Eldredge, Niles.  Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life.  QH31 D2 E43 2005

Farber, Daniel.  Lincoln’s Constitution.  E457.2 F216 2003

Fehrenbacher, Donald.  Lincoln: Speeches, Letters, Miscellaneous Writings.  E457.92 1989

Haught, John.  God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution.  BT712 H38 2008

Herndon, William H.  Herndon’s Life of Lincoln.  E457 H575 1983

Howard, Jonathan.  Darwin: A Very Short Introduction.  QH31 D2 H775 2001

Jayne, Allen.  Lincoln and the American Manifesto.  E457.2 J39 2007

Keckley, Elizabeth.  Behind the Scenes: or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House.  E457.15 K26 1988

Keneally, Thomas.  Abraham Lincoln: A Penguin Life.  E457 K423 2003

Levine, George.  Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World.  QH31 D2 L48 2006

Numbers, Ronald.  The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design.  BS651 N85 2006

Oates, Stephen.  Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths.  E457 O16 1984

Packard, Jerrold.  The Lincolns in the White House: Four Years That Shattered a Family.  E457.25 P23 2005

Peterson, Merrill.  Lincoln in American Memory.  E457.2 P484 1994

Quammen, David.  The Reluctant Mr Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of his Theory of Evolution.  QH31 D2 Q35 2006

Ruse, Michael.  The Evolution-Creation Struggle.  BT712 R88 2005

Wheeler, Tom.  Mr Lincoln’s T-Mails: The Untold Story of how Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War.  E457.45 W47 2006

Wilson, David Sloan.  Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives.  B818 W665 2007b

Wilson, Douglas.  Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words.  E457.2 W74 2007

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