Paul Harvey (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1992) researches and writes in the field of post-Civil War American History. His particular interests include southern history, American religious history, popular culture, war and society, and the history of American music. Paul is the author of Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities Among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925, published in 1997 by the University of North Carolina Press, and more recently  Freedom's Coming: Religious Cultures and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era. He is presently working on a co-authored text entitled Jesus in Red, White, and Black, an exploration of the racialization of the divine through American history, as well as Religion, Race, and American Ideas of Freedom: From the 17th Century to the Present, to be published by Yale University Press. Paul is the co-editor of two collections, including Themes in Religion and American Culture, and The Columbia Documentary History of Religion in America Since 1945, and is currently coediting the Columbia Guide to Religion in American History. Paul also runs the only web blog specifically devoted to American religious history.

In 2006, Harvey received the Faculty Award for Excellence in Research from the University of Colorado. In 2008, Harvey received the Outstanding Teaching Award from UCCS. In 2009, Harvey received the designation of Presidential Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado, a system-wide award.

"Will Teach for Food." -                  visit Paul Harvey's homepage and the American Religious History blog

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