The photograph on our cover since Spring 2022 is a detail of “Lincoln the Man” by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens (Lincoln Park, Chicago), taken in 2020 by Dave Wiegers of Gurnee, Illinois, and is used through his courtesy.
The signature ‘Abraham Lincoln’ on the cover comes, through the courtesy of Michelle Krowl, from the Library of Congress’s John G. Nicolay Papers on his March 4, 1861, appointment as private secretary.
Daniel W. Crofts has published extensively on the political crisis that led to the Civil War. His most recent book, Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery: The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union (University of North Carolina Press, 2016), was selected for the Bobbie and John Nau Book Prize in American Civil War Era History, awarded by the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia. Crofts is Professor Emeritus of History at The College of New Jersey.
Brian Dirck is Professor of History at Anderson University in Anderson, Indiana. He is the author of several books on Abraham Lincoln, most recently The Black Heavens: Abraham Lincoln and Death (2019).
Ian T. Iverson is an Associate Editor with the John Dickinson Writings Project. A graduate of Princeton University, Iverson completed his Ph.D. in history at the University of Virginia in 2022. His first book, Holding the Political Center in Illinois: Conservatism and Union on the Brink of the Civil War, will be published by the Kent State University Press in the fall of 2024.
John A. O’Brien is an independent researcher who writes and lectures on Lincoln and religion and culture in early nineteen-century America. He is the Lincoln historian at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. He is also a board member and past president of the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia, and the moderator for the Group’s website, Lincolnian.org. He is a past contributor to JALA and is currently writing a biography of Lincoln’s Civil War pastor, the Reverend Doctor Phineas D. Gurley.
George Provenzano is an independent historian and retired economist. He has written several articles on General James Semple and Illinois before the Civil War.
Wayne Soini is a retired labor lawyer and an independent scholar. He is the author of Abraham Lincoln, American Prince; Ancestry, Ambition and the Anti-Slavery Cause (2022).
Charles B. Strozier is Professor Emeritus of History at The City University of New York and a practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapist. He was twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize (2001 and 2011). Strozier’s most recent book is The New World of Self: Heinz Kohut’s Transformation of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (2022). It is the bookend to his biography of Heinz Kohut that came out in 2001 (Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst). Strozier has also written two books on Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln’s Quest for Union and Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln, a finalist for the Lincoln Prize).