Michael Burlingame (historian)

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.

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.

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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