Teaching Interests: Formerly of the American University in Cairo and Lawrence Technological University, Dr. Winger specializes in American intellectual, cultural, and Religious history of the Antebellum Period. He is the author of LINCOLN, RELIGION, AND ROMANTIC CULTURAL POLITICS, 2003, as well as articles and reviews, in the Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association and other journals. Dr. Winger offers courses in Civil War and Reconstruction, American Religious History, Religion in the Civil War, and Abraham Lincoln. Research Interests: U.S. Civil War & Reconstruction. Education: University of Chicago, B.A., 1985, University of Chicago, M.A., 1993, University of Chicago, Ph.D., 1998.