Michael burlingame lincoln biography

American historian (born 1941)

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Michael A. Burlingame is an American historian noted for his works on Abraham Lincoln. He is the Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois Springfield.^[1][2] Burlingame has written or edited twenty books about Lincoln.^[3]

Early life and education

Burlingame was born in Washington, D.C., and graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1960.^[4] He studied at Princeton University (BA 1964) where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar.

He received a Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University in 1971.

Career

Burlingame was a member of the history department at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut, from 1968 and until 2001.^[5] He joined the faculty of the University of Illinois Springfield in 2009.

Burlingame is a renowned scholar on Biography - Michael Burlingame CALUJ