Harold Holzer is senior vice president of external affairs for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. He is also co-chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and a member of its speakers bureau. Among the lectures he offers is “Lincoln and the Jews.” He has written several books on Lincoln.

Allen Guelzo wrote Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, a 1999 book that challenged the reigning thought about Lincoln’s faith – basically, that he had little, if any. He is a professor of Civil War era history at Gettysburg College.

Coleman is an associate professor of history and classics at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. She studies religion in Russia. Her current research is based on a book project, “Holy Kyiv: Priests, Communities, and Nationality in Imperial Russia, 1800-1917,” which explores the ethno-religious diversity of Kyiv diocese its relationship with the pastoral mission of […]

David Grubin is producer and director of the PBS television special Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided, which aired as part of American Experience and included discussions of Lincoln’s faith.

Doris Kearns Goodwin is one of America’s most popular historians and the best-selling author of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.

Professor of Religious Studies and Theology at St. Jerome’s University at the University of Waterloo. His primary focus in systematic theology among the Orthodox in particular. His dissertation studied the Orthodox Theologians at l’Institute Saint Serge, Paris (1925-1939) and their perception of St. Augustine’s Theology.

Eric Foner is a history professor at Columbia University in New York City and author of A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln.

Rodney Davis is co-director of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill.

Michael Burlingame is a history professor emeritus at Connecticut College in New London. He wrote the 1995 book The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln and the 2008 book Abraham Lincoln: A Life.