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Biography
Adam Jortner is an Alabama Educator, an award-winning historian, loving husband, father of two, and candidate for the Alabama State Board of Education. Originally from Virginia, Adam comes from a family of teachers, and he knows that teaching is one of the hardest and most important jobs, because teachers serve the future of our country. He currently lives in Auburn with his wife, Emily, and their two sons, Charlie and Sam. Adam has been teaching history at Auburn University for the better part of a decade. He's taught classes on the history of the U.S., Christianity, and Thomas Jefferson. He has published two books on religious liberty.

Education
PhD, University of Virginia

MA, University of Virginia

Career
Adam Jortner studies the transformation of religious and political life in the early United States. His book, The Gods of Prophetstown: The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American Frontier, won the 2014 James Broussard Best First Book Prize from the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR). His second published book, Blood from the Sky: Miracles and Politics in Early America, has been described as a history of the early nation from the perspective "that religious belief mattered." Dr. Jortner has received fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Kentucky Historical Society, and the Redd Center for Western Studies. He is working on a manuscript on the politics of miracles in the early republic. Before coming to Alabama, Adam worked with national educational companies, including Scholastic and Kaplan.

He was also part of the writing team for the TV show Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?

Campaign
Adam is currently a candidate for the Alabama State Board of Education. His main campaign issues are the following:
 * Let Teachers Teach. Let Students Learn.
 * Put the public back into public schools.
 * Decrease Standardized Tests
 * Invest in Vocational Education
 * Smaller Classes
 * Securing Our Schools

If you would like to learn more about his campaign, please visit adamforalabama.org