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Above: Michael Burlingame is a guest speaker, along
with President Barack Obama, at the banquet of the
Abraham Lincoln Association in Springfield, Illinois,
on Feb. 12, 2009. |
What: Michael Burlingame to give the Shirley G. Wassong Memorial Lecture in European and American Art, Culture, and History. The lecture, The Life of Abraham Lincoln: New Findings, Fresh Perspectives, will highlight newly-discovered materials about Lincoln, including more than 100 anonymous editorials published in Illinois newspapers that Burlingame has shown to be authored by Lincoln early in his political career.
When: Monday, March 23, 2009 ~ 7:30 p.m.
Where: McCook Auditorium on the campus of Trinity College
300 Summit Street, Hartford, Conn., 06106
Background:
Michael Burlingame is widely regarded as the most knowledgeable Abraham Lincoln scholar of his generation. His latest work, Abraham Lincoln: A Life, 2 vols. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), is destined to become a classic. Professor Burlingame is also the author of The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994) and An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln (Southern Illinois University Press, 1996), and he has edited eleven volumes of Lincoln primary source material. He has received the Abraham Lincoln Association Book Prize (1996), the Lincoln Diploma of Honor from Lincoln Memorial University (1998), and Honorable Mention for the Lincoln Prize, Gettysburg College (2001). Professor Burlingame received his B.A. from Princeton University in 1964 and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1971. He was a member of the History Department at Connecticut College from 1968 until his retirement in 2001. He currently lives in Mystic, Connecticut, where he is working on several Lincoln-related projects.
The Shirley G. Wassong Memorial Lecture in European and American Art, Culture, and History was established in 1996 in loving memory of Mrs. Wassong with the support of friends, family, and her husband, Joseph. This year’s Wassong Lecture marks the finale of a yearlong series of events observing the Lincoln Bicentennial at Trinity College.
Joseph F. Wassong, Jr. graduated from Trinity College in 1959 with a BA in History. He received his MA in History from Columbia University and spent his career teaching at Naugatuck Valley Community College before retiring in 1999.