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.

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

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

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

James Byrd Jr. is an associate professor of American religious history at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., where he has taught a class in religion and war in American history. He is also an expert on this story of Baptists and Methodists in the U.S. He has written two books about religion in early American […]

The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness was formed in 1987 to coordinate the federal response to homelessness. It works to create a national partnership at every level of government and with the private sector to reduce and end homelessness in the nation while maximizing the effectiveness of the federal government in contributing to that end. […]

William Lee Miller is author of 2002’s Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography. He is a scholar at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.

Robert Kraynak is a political science professor at Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y. He is the author of Christian Faith and Modern Democracy: God and Politics in the Fallen World, which examines America’s civil religion and its government.