Measuring the Man

Lucas E. Morel is the John K. Boardman Jr. Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee University. He is the author of Lincoln and the American Founding and Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining Religion's Role in American Self-Government and editor of Lincoln and Liberty: Wisdom for the Ages. He is a former president of the Abraham Lincoln Institute, a consultant for exhibits at the Library of Congress and National Archives, and he currently serves on the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission. Jonathan W. White is professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University and vice chair of The Lincoln Forum. He is the author or editor of 20 books, including A Great and Good Man: Rare, First-hand Accounts and Observations of Abraham Lincoln and an exciting children's book, My Day with Abe Lincoln. His recent book, A House Built By Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House, won the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize.