At the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, Peter Manseau is the Lilly Endowment Curator of American Religious History. The Apparitionists: A Story of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Caught Lincoln's Ghost, as well as Rag and Bone: A Pilgrimage Among the World's Sacred Dead, are among his many publications. He is a resident of Annapolis, Maryland.