Memories of President Lincoln

Don’t miss the rebroadcast of the film by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Looking for Lincoln. Today is the 200th anniversary of the births of both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. This coincidence is covered in the Gates program as well as in an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Finally, please revisit Walt Whitman’s sad elegy to the fallen President, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d. The photo above, taken in Springfield in 1860, is thought to be the last of Lincoln without his beard.