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LINCOLN SCHOLAR
Michael Burlingame
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Following in the wake of Harold Holzer, Jason Emerson, former
presidential candidate and Senator George McGovern, and Frank
J. Williams, yet another Lincoln scholar spoke in historic Homer.
This time, Homer hosted Michael Burlingame, the holder of the
Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies
at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Professor Burlingame
spoke at 7 PM on Wednesday, November 9, 2011, at the Homer
Center for the Arts near the Historic Homer Green on Main Street.
At both Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University
Burlingame studied under the late, eminent Lincoln historian
David Herbert Donald. From 1968 to 2001 he taught at
Connecticut College in New London. In 2009, he joined the
faculty of the University of Illinois in Springfield.
Burlingame has produced some fourteen books on or related to
Abraham Lincoln, culminating in 2008 in his award-winning, two
volume Abraham Lincoln: A Life. Time magazine has posited that
“Burlingame may know more about Lincoln and his era than
anyone in the world...."
In his talk Burlingame addressed the question "What new can be
said about Abraham Lincoln?" He cited the journalism and
reminiscences of Homer's native son William O. Stoddard from
the NY Citizen as examples of important new material that he
stumbled across in doing research. The topic was appropriate, as
Homer, “a new Lincoln mecca,” continues to observe the
Sesquicentennial of the Civil War.
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Michael Burlingame at the
William H. Seward Museum and House
November 9th, 2011.
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