Lucas E. Morel is professor of politics and head of the Politics Department at Washington and Lee University. He is coeditor of The New Territory: Ralph Ellison and the Twenty-First Century, published by University Press of Mississippi; editor of Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope: A Political Companion to “Invisible Man” and Lincoln and Liberty: Wisdom for the Ages; and author of Lincoln’s Sacred Effort: Defining Religion’s Role in American Self-Government.
