Michael Burlingame

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Michael Burlingame (born September 13, 1941 in Washington, DC ) is an American historian who researches primarily on Abraham Lincoln .

Life

Burlingame attended Phillips Academy in Andover , Massachusetts from 1956 to 1960 . He later studied at Princeton University . After the by David Herbert Donald held course on the Civil War had participated, he was taken by Donald under his wing and from there to a scientific assistant made. When Donald went to Johns Hopkins University , Burlingame, who received a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University in 1964, followed him after graduating from Johns Hopkins University and continued his studies there. 1971 here his promotion to Ph.D.

In 1968 he worked at the History Department of Connecticut College in New London , where he taught, most recently as May Buckley Sadowski Professor of History , until his retirement in 2001. In 2009 he was promoted to the Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield .

In 1996 he received the Abraham Lincoln Association Book Prize . The Lincoln Memorial University awarded him the 1998 Lincoln Diploma of Honor . In 2009 he was accepted into the Lincoln Academy of Illinois . In 2010 he received the Lincoln Prize for his two-volume work Abraham Lincoln: A Life .

Publications (selection)

  • The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln (1994, Urbana: University of Illinois Press)
  • (Ed.): An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln: John G. Nicolay's Interviews and Essays (1996, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press)
  • with John R. Turner Ettlinger (Ed.): Inside Lincoln's White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay (1997, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press)
  • (Ed.): Lincoln Observed: Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks (1998, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press)
  • (Ed.): Lincoln's Journalist: John Hay's Anonymous Writings for the Press, 1860‐1864 (1998, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press)
  • (Ed.): A Reporter's Lincoln by Walter B. Stevens (1998, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press)
  • (Ed.): With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860‐1865 (2000, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press)
  • (Ed.): At Lincoln's Side: John Hay's Civil War Correspondence and Selected Writings (2000, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press)
  • (Ed.): Inside the White House in War Times: Memoirs and Reports of Lincoln's Secretary by William O. Stoddard (2000, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press)
  • (Ed.): Dispatches from Lincoln's White House: The Anonymous Civil War Journalism of Presidential Secretary William O. Stoddard (2002, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press)
  • (Ed.): The Real Lincoln: A Portrait by Jesse W. Weik (2002, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press)
  • (Ed.): "Lincoln's Humor" and Other Essays by Benjamin P. Thomas (2002, Urbana: University of Illinois Press)
  • (Eds.): Abraham Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John Hay (2007, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press)
  • Abraham Lincoln: A Life , 2 volumes (2008, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press)
  • Abraham Lincoln Traveled This Way (2011, Heyworth, IL: Firelight)
  • Lincoln and the Civil War (2011, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press)

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personal data
SURNAME Burlingame, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC