Adam Jortner is a Professor of History and the former Goodwin-Philpott Eminent Professor of Religion in the Department of History at Auburn University. He received his PhD in History from the University of Virginia. He has written and lectured extensively on the history of religion and democracy and the history of imagination. He is the author of four books, including The Gods of Prophetstown; Blood from the Sky: Miracles and Politics in the Early American Republic; and A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom.