Robert Bray is a professor of English literature at Illinois Wesleyan University and the author of Peter Cartwright: Legendary Frontier Preacher. Cartwright was a contemporary of Lincoln’s and opposed him in the race for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1846, a race in which he used Lincoln’s supposed lack of religion against him.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness, based in Arlington, Va., works on public policy issues affecting the mentally ill, including access to affordable housing. Contact Lauren Gleason, the director of public relations and media.

This is the website of The British Orthodox Church, which is canonically part of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria.

John Turner teaches American history at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. He specializes in 19th-century American civil religion.

The Sacred Church of Saint Jacob, Apostle Greek Orthodox Parish of Florence. This is an Orthodox Church in the city center of Florence, Italy. The website gives access to links and materials regarding Orthodoxy in the region and other Orthodox sites. Contact through the website.

Chuck Queen is senior pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church in Frankfort, Ky. In 2008, he gave a sermon about the Christian directive to love one’s enemies, in which he used Lincoln’s choice of his Cabinet as a major example.

Richard Latner is a history professor at Tulane University in New Orleans. He specializes in the history of the Civil War.

ECC is an association of churches in the Czechoslovakia region.  The Orthodox Church in the Czech Lands is a part of this association. The media contact for the World Council of Churches is Marianne Ejdersten.

Charles Hubbard is director of the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tenn.