Name Michael Burlingame Role Historian | Awards Lincoln Prize | |
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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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Lincoln biographer michael burlingame on lincoln s legacy
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
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.
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