Ashbrook Colloquium with Michael Burlingame

Topic: "Lincoln: A Life"

There is no charge for this event.  Light refreshments will be served.

Michael Burlingame, holder of the Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield, was born in Washington, DC and attended Phillips Academy, Andover. As a freshman at Princeton University, he took the Civil War course taught by the eminent Lincolnian David Herbert Donald, who took him under his wing and made him a research assistant. When Professor Donald moved on to Johns Hopkins University, Burlingame upon graduation from Princeton followed him to that institution. There he received his Ph.D. In 1968 he joined the History Department at Connecticut College in New London, where he taught until retiring in 2001 as the May Buckley Sadowski Professor of History Emeritus. He joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Springfield in 2009.

He is the author and editor of numerous volumes on Abraham Lincoln including his latest two-volume biography, Lincoln: A Life.  He has received the Abraham Lincoln Association Book Prize (1996), the Lincoln Diploma of Honor from Lincoln Memorial University (1998), Honorable Mention for the Lincoln Prize, Gettysburg College (2001), and was inducted into the Lincoln Academy of Illinois in 2009.