Lincoln Lecture by Michael Burlingame

Renowned Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame will give a talk, "What New Can Be Said About Abraham Lincoln?" at 4 p.m., Thursday, March 25, in the Alumni Room, Old Main, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. The free, public lecture is sponsored by the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College.

Author and editor of more than a dozen books on Lincoln, Burlingame won the 2010 Abraham Lincoln Prize for his most recent book, Abraham Lincoln: A Life. The prize, which includes the largest award in the field of history, is given annually for the best book on Lincoln and Lincoln's era.

Burlingame is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College. The Center is hosting the full version of his book, Abraham Lincoln: A Life, on its website because the text was too long for the two-volume print edition.

Burlingame holds the Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois-Springfield. From 1968 to 2001 he taught history at Connecticut College. He joined the faculty of the University of Illinois-Springfield in 2009.

Founded in 1837, Knox is a national liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with students from 47 states and 48 countries. Knox's 'Old Main' is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.