Edward J. Blum
Jack Miller Center Founding Civics Initiative Faculty
Professor of History, San Diego State University
Edward J. Blum is a professor of eighteenth and nineteenth-century United States History in the History Department at San Diego State University. His research, writing, and teaching involve politics, constitutionalism, war, society, and culture in the United States from the founding of the nation through the era of the Civil War. He has particular interests in how numerical information, data, demography, statistics, and the Census play roles in shaping the course of United States history.
Professor Blum is committed to both top-notch scholarship and reaching out to the broader public. He is the author and co-author of several books including War is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War (2021) and The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America (2012). Publicly, Blum has authored pieces for the New York Times, CNN, the Atlantic Monthly, Newsweek, and many other outlets.
He is also the Project Director for the American Revolution and Constitution History Project at SDSU, which looks to energize civic and patriotic reflection in San Diego. He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky.
Research Interest:
Constitutionalism
War, Society, and Culture
The American Civil War
