I have included here work on Abraham Lincoln not published elsewhere. In addition, from time to time, I shall post poetry, essays and dramatic scripts.
Articles
Abraham Lincoln & the Colony on Ile-a-Vache, unpublished (2012)
Just after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect (1 Jan 1863) Abraham Lincoln signed a...
What Abraham Lincoln Read: An Annotated and Evaluative Bibliography, Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association (2007)
This bibliography attempts to list, in alphabetical order by author, all the books or parts...
Knowing Grasses: Aimé Césaire’s ‘Cahier d’un retour au pays natal’ and Walt Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself’, Revista Interamericana (2001)
Books
Contributions to Books
The Regionalist Tradition in Poetry, Benchmark: Anthology of Contemporary Illinois Poetry (1988)
Unpublished Papers
Dishonest Abe Scholarship: the Lincoln Biography Plagiarism Scandal (with Michael Burlingame) (2011)
'Dishonest Abe Scholarship' is a narrative/analytical account of the controversy surrounding charges of plagiarism in...
‘The Stones I shaped endure’: Dickinsonian Pastiche in A.S. Byatt’s Possession (2011)
This is a previously unpublished meditation on A. S. Byatt's use of Emily Dickinson-like pastiche...
Presentations
Why Thoughts Are Better Than Music or Emily Dickinson's Fascicle 18 as a Lyric Sequence, Unfastening the Fascicles: An EDIS Roundtable at the 1997 MLA, December 30, 1997 (1997)
Recently, an old argument concerning the existence of God has made a comeback: the "Argument...
Other
Lincoln's in Town (a play) (with Nancy Steele Brokaw) (2009)
The play was produced in Bloomington, Illinois, February 13-15, 2009, at the Bloomington Performing Arts...