LUCAS MOREL, Garwood Visiting Fellow, is Associate Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee University. He is a member of the scholarly advisory committee of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, Vice President of the Abraham Lincoln Institute, and a trustee of the Supreme Court Historical Society. He is author of Lincoln’s Sacred Effort: Defining Religion’s Role in American Self-Government and editor of Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope: A Political Companion to “Invisible Man”. Recent publications include “Lincoln, God, and Emancipation: A Promise Fulfilled” in Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment, “Lincoln’s Political Religion and Religious Politics” in Religion and the American Presidency, and “The Dred Scott Dissents: McLean, Curtis, Lincoln, and the Public Mind” in the Journal of Supreme Court History. Morel holds a Ph.D. from the Claremont Graduate School.