Lincoln Editor

              January - March 2003 Volume 3   Number 1
BOMAN JOINS PROJECT AS ASSISTANT EDITOR
WEEKS AND STABLER CHOSEN
AS FIRST RESEARCH AND EDITING FELLOWS
In January, Dr. Dennis K. Boman joined the Papers of
Abraham Lincoln as an assistant editor. Boman holds
a  Ph.D.  in  American  History  from  the
University of Missouri-Columbia, where he
completed his dissertation under the direction
of  Dr.  Noble  Cunningham  Jr.  Boman  also
holds  two  Master s  degrees  from  the
University  of  Missouri-Columbia one  in
classical  studies  and  the  other  in  ancient
history. A native of Kansas, he received a B.A.
in  classical  studies  from Wichita  State
University.
Dr.  Boman  joins  the  project  from
Eastern Michigan University, where he taught
American history and western civilization courses. He
has also been a faculty member at several other colleges
and universities.  He is the author of The Life of Abiel
Leonard:  Eminent  Jurist  and  Passionate  Unionist
(Edward  Mellen,  2002),  a  biography  of  a  Missouri
attorney whose legal career has interesting parallels to
Lincoln s own law practice. Boman has also
written a biography of Hamilton R. Gamble,
the  chief  justice  of  the  Missouri  Supreme
Court and Missouri s Civil War governor, and
the manuscript is under review by Louisiana
State University Press.
With Assistant Editor Glenna Schroeder-
Lein, Boman has devoted his attention to the
search phase of Series II and Series III of the
Papers  of Abraham  Lincoln. Together  with
two  research  and  editing  fellows,  they  are
implementing  the  extensive  mail  survey  to
locate all documents written by or to Abraham Lincoln.
They are also updating and maintaining the database and
physical files through which the project maintains control
over the ever-increasing number of documents.
Through a national search last fall, a search committee
chose Dr. Jim Weeks and Mr. Scott Stabler as the
first Papers of Abraham Lincoln Research and Editing
Fellows. The fellowships began in January and continue
through  June  2003.  Funding  for  the
fellowships comes from the Abraham
Lincoln  Presidential  Center  for
Governmental  Studies  at  the
University of Illinois at Springfield.
Each fellow works with the Papers of
Abraham Lincoln for three days each
week, gaining a better appreciation for
the  craft  of  historical  documentary
editing. Fellows spend the remaining
two  days  working  on  their  own
research projects, using the collections
of the Illinois State Historical Library
and other repositories in Springfield.
Dr.  Jim Weeks  received  his
Ph.D. in American History from Penn
State  University  in  2001.  Princeton
University  Press  is  publishing  his
dissertation as Gettysburg: Memory,
Market,  and  an American  Shrine in
May of this year. Weeks also holds a Master s in Library
Science from the University of Pittsburgh, and an M.A.
and B.A. from Penn State University. He is the author of
Jim Weeks
Scott Stabler
See FELLOWS (on page 3)