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We will meet at the American Legion in Linda Vista which is located at 7815 Armour St, San Diego. The focus of this meeting will be on Revolutionary War era history with our speaker being Dr. Edward Blum of SDSU’s History Dept. who will speak on: “Distant from the Depository”: A Collaborative Conversation on Information in the American Revolution.We also anticipate inducting a number of new members at this meeting and there will be an update on the CASSAR Annual Meeting held at the end of April.

Edward J. Blum is a professor of nineteenth-century United States History in the History Department at San Diego State University. He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky. 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 demography, statistics, and the Census play roles in shaping the course of United States history. Blum is also the author and co-author of several books on religion and race in United States history, including War is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War (2021), Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898 (2005; reissued 2015), W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet (2007), and The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America (2012). He is the winner of numerous awards including the Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship, the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities, and the John T. Hubbell Prize for best article published in Civil War History in 2015.

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