Michael Burlingame, holder of the Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield, was born in Washington DC and attended Phillips Academy, Andover. As a freshman at Princeton University, he took the Civil War course taught by the eminent Lincolnian David Herbert Donald, who took him under his wing and made him a research assistant. When Professor Donald moved on to Johns Hopkins University, Burlingame upon graduation from Princeton followed him to that institution. There he received his Ph.D. In 1968 he joined the History Department at Connecticut College in New London, where he taught until retiring in 2001 as the May Buckley Sadowski Professor of History Emeritus. He joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Springfield in 2009.
Professor Burlingame is the author of Abraham Lincoln: A Life (two volumes) and The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln. In addition, he has edited the several volumes of Lincoln primary source materials: An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln: John G. Nicolay’s Interviews and Essays; Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay — co-edited with John R. Turner Ettlinger; Lincoln Observed: Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks; Lincoln’s Journalist: John Hay’s Anonymous Writings for the Press, 1860–1864; A Reporter’s Lincoln by Walter B. Stevens; With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860–1865; At Lincoln’s Side: John Hay’s Civil War Correspondence and Selected Writings; Inside the White House in War Times: Memoirs and Reports of Lincoln’s Secretary by William O. Stoddard; Dispatches from Lincoln’s White House: The Anonymous Civil War Journalism of Presidential Secretary William O. Stoddard; The Real Lincoln: A Portrait by Jesse W. Weik; Lincoln’s Humor and Other Essays by Benjamin P. Thomas; and Abraham Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John Hay.
He has received the Abraham Lincoln Association Book Prize (1996), the Lincoln Diploma of Honor from Lincoln Memorial University (1998), Honorable Mention for the Lincoln Prize, Gettsyburg College (2001), and was inducted into the Lincoln Academy of Illinois in 2009.
He currently lives in Springfield, where he is working on several Lincoln-related projects.
John Heitmann was awarded a Ph.D. in the History of Science from Johns Hopkins University in 1983. In 1984 he came to the University of Dayton, where he previously served as Chair of the History Department and Alumni Chair in Humanities. He is currently is a Professor of History, and recently was appointed the visiting Knapp Chair in the Humanities at the University of San Diego for the Spring term, 2010. Heitmann has published widely in the field of the history of science and technology, and for more than 18 years served as a consultant to the Sherwin-Williams Co. In 1998 Heitmann began to redirect his work to topics on the history of the automobile, the consequence of an immensely popular senior seminar and undergraduate offering entitled the Automobile and American Life. This work served as the basis of his recently released book, The Automobile and American Life. This work was awarded the Ray and Pat Browne Award by the Popular Culture Association and an American Library Association Choice top academic book for 2010. Currently he is following up that monograph with a book tentatively entitled Speed, Spectacle and Culture: A History of Automobile Racing in America, 1895–2001. A lifelong automobile devotee, in 1996 he began to restore a 1971 Irish green Porsche 911T targa, which now he can be frequently seen driving through the south suburbs of Dayton on sunny and not-so sunny days. He is a member of the Society of the History of Technology, the American Historical Association, the Society of Automotive Historians, and the Porsche Club of America.
Allan J. Lichtman graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brandeis, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, and is a professor and formerly chair of the Department of History at American University in Washington, D.C. His seven books include Your Family History, Prejudice and the Old Politics: The Presidential Election of 1928, Ecological Inference, and The Thirteen Keys to the Presidency. The Keys system correctly predicted the popular vote outcome in every presidential election from 1984 to 2008. His latest books are The Keys to the White House, 2008 Edition and White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in non-fiction.
Dr. Lichtman has provided commentary for all major U.S. television and radio networks, the Voice of America, and many foreign broadcast companies, including BBC and CBC.
He has published more than 200 scholarly and op-ed articles that have appeared in such publications as the American Historical Review, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Journal of Law and Politics, the Journal of Legal Studies, the International Journal of Forecasting, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.
Dr. Lichtman has been an expert witness in more than 75 civil and voting rights cases. As an expert for the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights he discovered the vast disparity in rates at which officials rejected ballots cast by blacks and whites in Florida’s 2000 presidential election. He has worked on numerous cases for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and has worked for such civil rights organizations as the NAACP, the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union, the LDF, and the Southern Poverty Law Center. He has also been a consultant and expert witness for numerous state and local governments. He received the 1992-93 Scholar/Teacher award at American University, the University’s highest faculty award. Dr. Lichtman’s biography is published in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World.
George C. Rable is the Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History at the University of Alabama. A native of Lima, Ohio, he received his B.A from Bluffton College (1972), his M.A from Louisiana State University (1973), and his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University (1978). He taught at Anderson University in Indiana from 1979–1998. From 2004–2008, he served as the President of the Society of Civil War Historians. His books include: Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! which won the Lincoln Prize, the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award in American Military History, the Jefferson Davis Award, the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award and was a History Book Club selection; The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics which was a History Book Club selection; Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism which won the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize and the Jefferson Davis Award; and But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction. His latest book, God’s Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War will be published by the University of North Carolina Press in the fall of 2010..
Richard W. Stewart was appointed as the Chief Historian of the U.S. Army Center of Military History in 2006. Prior to assuming this post, he was the Chief of Histories Division, Center of Military History, from 1998 to 2006. His Bachelor’s Degree in history is from Stetson University, Deland, Florida (1972) and he has a Master’s degree in history from the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (1980). He received his Ph.D. from Yale University, New Haven, CT in 1986 with a dissertation topic on The English Ordnance Office: Arms and Politics 1585–1625. Dr. Stewart has also attended the National War College in 2005–2006 and received his Masters of Science in National Security Strategy from that Senior Service College. Before coming to the Center in 1998, Dr. Stewart was the Command Historian, US Army Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina from 1990–998, and Historian, Center for Army Lessons Learned, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas from 1987–1990. A retired Colonel in military intelligence, USAR, with 30 years of commissioned service, he has deployed as a combat historian to Operation Desert Storm (Saudi Arabia and Kuwait), Operations Continue Hope/Support Hope in support of Task Force Ranger in UNOSOM II (Somalia), Maintain/Restore Democracy (Haiti), Joint Guard/Joint Force (Bosnia), DESERT SPRING (Kuwait and Bahrain), and after 9/11 to Afghanistan in support of Task Force Dagger during Operation Enduring Freedom. He is married to the former Lynn Jones, currently an archivist at the Washington National Records Center, Suitland, Maryland, and has two sons, Mr. James Stewart of Laurel, Maryland, and Second Lieutenant John C. Stewart currently serving in Afghanistan.
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