Just after they left the Birdcage Theater in Tombstone, Ariz., during the early 1880s, Morgan Earp asked his brother, “Wyatt, do you believe in God?” They had just watched a raucous version of Faust ...

Meacham, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and professor at Vanderbilt University, is the author of the new book And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle At Easter 1966, ...