Michael Burlingame (historian)

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Name Michael Burlingame Role Historian		Awards Lincoln Prize

Education Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University, Phillips Academy Books Abraham Lincoln: A Life, The Inner World of Abraham, Lincoln and the Civil War, A Day Long to Be Rememb, Abraham Lincoln Traveled Similar People John George Nicolay, John Hay, Noah Brooks, Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln historian michael burlingame on lincoln s civil war leadership

Michael Burlingame is an American historian, and Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies, at University of Illinois, Springfield. He was born in Memphis. He was the May Buckley Sadowski '19 Professor Emeritus of History at Connecticut College.

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Life

He graduated from Phillips Academy in 1960. 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. 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.

References

Michael Burlingame (historian) Wikipedia

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