Michael Burlingame (historian)
Michael Burlingame is an American historian, and Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies, at University of Illinois, Springfield.[1][2] He was born in Memphis. He was the May Buckley Sadowski '19 Professor Emeritus of History at Connecticut College.[3]
Life
He graduated from Phillips Academy in 1960.[4] He graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a Ph.D. in History in 1971.
In 2002, he was involved in the Stephen B. Oates controversy.[5][6] In 2010, he won the Lincoln Prize for his Abraham Lincoln: A Life.
Works
- The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln. University of Illinois Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-252-06667-2.
- Michael Burlingame, ed. (2002). "Lincoln's humor" and other essays. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-02708-6.
- Michael Burlingame, ed. (2006). At Lincoln's Side: John Hay's Civil War Correspondence and Selected Writings. SIU Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-2711-9.
- Abraham Lincoln: a life. 1. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8018-8993-6.
- Abraham Lincoln: a life. 2. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2008. ISBN 978-1-4214-1058-6.
Awards
Michael Burlingame was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the state’s highest honor) by the Governor of Illinois in 2009 as a Bicentennial Laureate.[7]
References
- ↑ "Renowned Lincoln Scholar Michael Burlingame accepts Lincoln Chair". news.uis.edu.
- ↑ "Directory - University of Illinois Springfield - UIS". uisapp.uis.edu.
- ↑ http://www.conncoll.edu/academics/web_profiles/burlingame.html
- ↑ "Phillips Academy". andover.edu.
- ↑ "I Stood Accused of Plagiarism". hnn.us.
- ↑ "Michael Burlingame’s Response to Stephen Oates". hnn.us.
- ↑ "Laureates by Year - The Lincoln Academy of Illinois". The Lincoln Academy of Illinois. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
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