Michael A. Burlingame is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

noted for his works on

Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln ( ; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation throu ...

. He is the Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at the

University of Illinois Springfield The University of Illinois Springfield (UIS) is a public university in Springfield, Illinois. The university was established in 1969 as Sangamon State University by the Illinois General Assembly and became a part of the University of Illinoi ...

Early life and education

Burlingame was born in Washington, D.C. and graduated from

Phillips Academy ("Not for Self") la, Finis Origine Pendet ("The End Depends Upon the Beginning") Youth From Every Quarter Knowledge and Goodness , address = 180 Main Street , city = Andover, Massachusetts, Andover , stat ...

Andover, Massachusetts Andover is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. It was settled in 1642 and incorporated in 1646."Andover" in ''The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th ed., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 387. As of th ...

in 1960. He studied at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

(BA 1964) where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a

Fulbright Scholar The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people o ...

. He received a Ph.D. in history from

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...

in 1971.

Career

Burlingame was a member of the history department at

Connecticut College Connecticut College (Conn College or Conn) is a private liberal arts college in New London, Connecticut. It is a residential, four-year undergraduate institution with nearly all of its approximately 1,815 students living on campus. The college w ...

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from 1968 and until 2001. He joined the faculty of the

in 2009. Burlingame is a renowned scholar on the life of

. He authored ''The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln'' (1994) and the two-volume ''Abraham Lincoln: A Life'' (2008). The former was said to have launched a new "'golden age' of Lincoln scholarship." The latter won the 2010

Lincoln Prize The Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, founded by the late Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman in partnership with Gabor Boritt, Director Emeritus of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, is administered by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for Ameri ...

, was a co-winner of the annual book prize awarded by the

Abraham Lincoln Institute The Abraham Lincoln Institute (ALI), founded in 1997, is an American non-profit organization promoting scholarly research on the subject of Abraham Lincoln.Abraham Lincoln Association The Abraham Lincoln Association (ALA) is an American association advancing studies on Abraham Lincoln and disseminating scholarship about Lincoln. The ALA was founded in 1908 to lead a national celebration of Lincoln's 100th birthday and continues ...

and

Abraham Lincoln Institute The Abraham Lincoln Institute (ALI), founded in 1997, is an American non-profit organization promoting scholarly research on the subject of Abraham Lincoln.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. Burlingame has charged several Lincoln scholars with plagiarism. In 2000, Burlingame submitted a review to ''

The Journal of American History ''The Journal of American History'' is the official academic journal of the Organization of American Historians. It covers the field of American history and was established in 1914 as the ''Mississippi Valley Historical Review'', the official jo ...

'' alleging plagiarism in John C. Waugh's book, ''Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency''. In the same review, Burlingame also highlighted errors in citation and transcription in Harold Holzer's book, ''The Lincoln Mailbag: America Writes to the President, 1861-1896''. Holzer responded by charging that Burlingame had "riven the Lincoln field, and made it unpleasant to contribute scholarship. He's the Torquemada of academic journalism." In 1993, and again in 2002, Burlingame was involved in the

Stephen B. Oates Stephen Baery Oates (January 5, 1936August 20, 2021) was a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He specialized in the American Civil War era and authored numerous books. Early life and education Stephen Baery Oates w ...

controversy, maintaining Oates plagiarized in his Lincoln biography.

Works

* *Michael Burlingame, ed. (1998)

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Stevens, Walter B., ''A Reporter's Lincoln'', Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. *Michael Burlingame, and Ettlinger, John R. Turner, eds. (1999). ''Inside Lincoln's White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay'', Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press. *Michael Burlingame, ed. (2000). ''With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865'', Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press. *Michael Burlingame, ed. (2000)

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Stoddard, William O., ''Inside the White House in War Times: Memoirs and Reports of Lincoln's Secretary'', Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.
Michael Burlingame, ed. (2002). Thomas, Benjamin P., ''"Lincoln's Humor" and Other Essays'', Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press
*Michael Burlingame, ed. (2003) 922 Weik, Jesse W., ''The Real Lincoln: A Portrait'', Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. * *''Lincoln and the Civil War''. Concise Lincoln Library. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press. 2011.
Review
*Michael Burlingame, ed. (2018). ''Sixteenth President-in-Waiting: Abraham Lincoln and the Springfield Dispatches of Henry Villard, 1860–1861'', Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press. *Michael Burlingame, ed. (2021). ''Abraham Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and

John Hay John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838July 1, 1905) was an American statesman and official whose career in government stretched over almost half a century. Beginning as a private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln, Hay's highest office was U ...

''. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press. * * *''An American Marriage: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln and

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''. Berkeley and Oakland, CA: Pegasus Books, 2021. *''The Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Equality''. Berkeley and Oakland, CA: Pegasus Books, 2021.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Burlingame, Michael Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Connecticut College faculty University of Illinois at Springfield faculty Phillips Academy alumni Johns Hopkins University alumni Historians of the United States Lincoln Prize winners Year of birth missing (living people) Historians of Abraham Lincoln American male non-fiction writers