Connecticut College
Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois-Springfield, Prof. Burlingame is the author of The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln (Illinois, 1995) and editor of important Lincoln source materials by John G. Nicolay, John Hay, Noah Brooks, William O. Stoddard, Walter Stevens, and Jesse W. Weik. His two-volume Abraham Lincoln: A Life (Johns Hopkins, 2008) is the most thoroughly researched biography of Lincoln ever written.