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Selected Works of Robert Bray
Unpublished Paper
Dishonest Abe Scholarship: the Lincoln Biography Plagiarism Scandal
(2011)
  • Robert Bray, Illinois Wesleyan University
  • Michael Burlingame
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Abstract
'Dishonest Abe Scholarship' is a narrative/analytical account of the controversy surrounding charges of plagiarism in Stephen B. Oates' biography of Abraham Lincoln, 'With Malice Toward None.' It is written by (and of course from the point of view of) two of the scholars who first made the case against Oates, Robert Bray and Michael Burlingame.
Keywords
  • Lincoln,
  • historiography,
  • biography,
  • plagiarism
Disciplines
Publication Date
2011
Citation Information
Robert Bray and Michael Burlingame. "Dishonest Abe Scholarship: the Lincoln Biography Plagiarism Scandal" (2011)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/3/