{"id":339,"date":"2009-06-11T14:08:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T19:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=339"},"modified":"2010-06-16T14:27:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T19:27:28","slug":"extensive-lincoln-biography-made-available-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/06\/11\/extensive-lincoln-biography-made-available-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Extensive Lincoln Biography Made Available Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uis.edu\/newsbureau\/uploaded_images\/MichaelBurlingameblog-703914.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"244\" \/>In 2008 historian Michael Burlingame published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Abraham-Lincoln-Life-Michael-Burlingame\/dp\/0801889936\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1244735500&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Abraham Lincoln: A Life<\/a>, an exhaustive and well researched biography of our sixteenth president. The huge, two volume work (the entirety of which weighs around 9 pounds) went through serious editing before it was ready to publish. Wanting all of his extensive research to be used by scholars and students, Burlingame, along with Knox College&#8217;s Lincoln Studies Center, has made the author&#8217;s original, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knox.edu\/Academics\/Distinctive-Programs\/Lincoln-Studies-Center\/Burlingame-Abraham-Lincoln-A-Life.html\" target=\"_blank\">unedited manuscript available online<\/a>. Currently only volume one is available with the second on its way. This excellent work, completely free, will surely be a useful tool for any who wish to study Lincoln and the Civil War era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008 historian Michael Burlingame published Abraham Lincoln: A Life, an exhaustive and well researched biography of our sixteenth president. The huge, two volume work (the entirety of which weighs around 9 pounds) went through serious editing before it was ready to publish. Wanting all of his extensive research to be used by scholars and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,82,174],"tags":[167],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19th-century-1840-1880","category-lesson-plans","category-recent-scholarship","tag-education-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2174,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}