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.

The Lincoln Studies Center is at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill. Douglas Wilson and Rodney O. Davis are co-directors.

Lincoln/Net is a project of Northern Illinois University to put all of Lincoln’s political and personal materials online. A section on historical themes includes information on the religion and culture of Lincoln’s times.

David Gordon White is a professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is an expert on the religions of South Asia and contributed an entry on dogs to The Encyclopedia of Religion.

Suzanne Crawford O’Brien is an assistant professor of religion and culture at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash. She is an expert on the religious and spiritual attitudes and practices of Native Americans and animals.

The Rev. Thomas Hughson is an associate professor of theology at Marquette University in Milwaukee. He is a member of the American Academy of Religion’s group on animals and religion and author of a paper titled “Wolves and Religion: Can Christianity Assimilate ‘Religious Experience’ of Animals?”

Nancy R. Howell is a professor of theology and philosophy of religion at the St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Mo. She wrote an article titled “Going to the Dogs: Candid Ethology and Theological Reflection” for the journal Zygon in 2006. She has also written several papers on the theological and philosophical implications of the interplay […]