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Edward J. Blum (University of Kentucky, 2003) is a historian of race and religion in the United States. He is the author (with Paul Harvey) of The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America <\/a>(2012), W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet (2007), and Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898 (2005). He is also the co-editor (with Paul Harvey) of The Columbia Guide to Religion in American History (2012), (with Jason R. Young) The Souls of W. E. B. Du Bois: New Essays and Reflections (2009), and (with W. Scott Poole) Vale of Tears: New Essays on Religion and Reconstruction (2005). Blum has been awarded the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities by the Council of Graduate Schools for the best first book by a historian published between 2002 and 2009 (2009), the Peter Seaborg Award for the best book in Civil War Studies (2006), and the C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation in southern history (2004). Twice he has been recognized by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights and in 2007 was named by the History News Network a \u201ctop young historian.\u201d He has been a fellow with the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University and with the National Endowment for the Humanities. In the classroom, Blum engages the past in a variety of ways, whether through music and images or debates and historical simulations. His courses include Antebellum America, the Civil War and Reconstruction, American religious history, and history through biography. He is a co-editor of the teaching blog and with Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman and Jon Gjerde of Major Problems in American History. <\/i><\/span>

<\/i>Ed\u2019s Contributions:<\/span>
1.Racial Violence and Presidential Rhetoric<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>
2. The Shooting Of Children And \u2018God\u2019s Plan\u2019<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>
3. What all those Jesus jokes tell us<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>
4. Christ in Alabama (and Tennessee and Georgia)<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>
5. Racial and Sacred Imagery in Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter and Other Works by Seth Grahame-Smith<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>
6. What\u2019s at Stake? Race and Evangelical Naming<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>
7. Obama and Jeremiah Wright: Why a Pulled Ad Does Not Mean a Dead Issue<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>
8. Faces and Places of Christ: An Introduction<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

9.\u00a0Jesus Christ in Ferguson<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
10.\u00a0For Ferguson, We Need Less Niebuhr and More Baldwin<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
11.\u00a0What Twain, Du Bois, and My Family Each Lost<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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