Dylan Burns
Kelby Dolan
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Editorial Staff
(bottom, from left) Associate Director/Associate Editor John Lupton,
Assistant Editor Stacy Pratt McDermott, Assistant Editor Susan Krause,
and Director/Editor Daniel W. Stowell. (top, from left) Assistant Editor
Dennis Suttles, Research Associate Kelley B. Clausing, and Assistant
Editor Christopher A. Schnell. Not pictured, NHPRC Editing Fellow R.
Dan Monroe.
The interview is available online at http://
www.virtualbooksigning.net/archive.html.
In June, Lupton gave a presentation to an Elderhostel
group visiting Springfield. He spoke about Lincoln’s circuit
riding practice. Also in June, Lupton gave a program to the
Winona County (Minnesota) Historical Society about the
project and and its recent findings. Stowell spoke to an Illinois
History class at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
about the research behind his forthcoming article entitled
“Murder at a Methodist Camp Meeting: The Origins of
Abraham Lincoln’s Most
Famous Trial.”
This summer, the
project is pleased to host two
summer interns. Dylan Burns
and Kelby Dolan will spend
June and July working with
project staff to locate Lincoln
documents on the Internet and
to edit digital images.
PROJECT CELEBRATES PUBLICATION OF SELECTIVE LEGAL EDITION
This spring, Dylan
Burns, a native of Springfield,
Illinois, completed his junior year
at Southern Illinois University in
Carbondale, where he is
majoring in history. At SIU,
Dylan is a member of the Phi
Alpha Theta history honor
society and the student senate.
He is the author of “Industry and
the Second Coming: Socialism
in Transition at New Harmony, Indiana,” which was published
in Legacy: A Journal of Student Scholarship, an SIU
publication. After graduating from SIU in the spring of 2009,
Dylan plans to enter a graduate program to earn a doctorate
in history.
Kelby Dolan graduated in May from Pleasant Plains
High School in Pleasant Plains, Illinois. This fall, he will enter
Millikin University to pursue a degree in American history
with a minor in political science.
On April 18, 2008, the Papers of Abraham Lincoln
celebrated the publication of The Law Practice of
Abraham Lincoln: Legal Documents and Cases with a
luncheon and book-signing at the Abraham Lincoln
Presidential Library in Springfield. Eighty people attended
the celebration, which marked the completion of Series I of
the Papers of Abraham Lincoln (the Lincoln Legal Papers).
The attendees included two former directors of the Lincoln
Legal Papers, Dr. Roger Bridges and Dr. Cullom Davis, and
several members of the project’s advisory board.
Director Daniel Stowell presented copies of the four-volume
edition to the project’s sponsors and cosponsors.
Ms. Kathryn Harris and Dr. James Cornelius received copies
for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. Mr. Richard
Hart received a copy for the Abraham Lincoln Association,
and Dr. Anthony Halter received a copy for the Center for
State Policy and Leadership at the University of Illinois at
Springfield.
Director Daniel Stowell and Associate Director John
Lupton gave several interviews with local newspaper, radio,
and television outlets regarding the publication of the edition.
DONORS The project acknowledges with deep appreciation the generosity
of the following contributors:
Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Armstrong
Richard C. Bjorklund
Glen L. Bower
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Dickerman
Richard Grosboll
The Lincoln Group of New York
John A. Lupton
Samuel A. Perroni
Scott Ralston
L.W. Robinson
William and Mary Shepherd
Daniel W. Stowell
Bob and Helen White
