Edwin Scott Gaustad was a professor of history at the University of California, Riverside.
13 Facts About Edwin Gaustad
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Edwin Gaustad achieved fame with his study of the genealogy of religion in the United States, Historical atlas of religion in America.
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Edwin Gaustad was president of the American Society of Church History.
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Edwin Gaustad died March 25,2011, in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the age of 87.
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Edwin Gaustad was born in Rowley, Iowa, but grew up in Houston, Texas.
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Edwin Gaustad graduated from Baylor University in 1947 with a BA in history.
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At Brown, Edwin Gaustad studied under Edmund Morgan, a historian of colonial America.
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Edwin Gaustad taught at Brown as an associate professor, before going on to Shorter College, University of Redlands, and finally University of California at Riverside.
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An running theme in Edwin Gaustad's scholarship was religious dissent in America.
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Edwin Gaustad came up with the slogan "Istook is Mistook," a phrase that would become popular in the campaign against the amendment.
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Edwin Gaustad was a prolific writer that believed in the separation of church and state education.
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Edwin Gaustad dedicated his voice and pen to the preservation of the best of Baptist principles, and demonstrated time and timeagain that American history cannot be fully understood apart from inclusion of the religious dimension of the American story.
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Edwin Gaustad held a lifelong love for Baylor University and often taught there as a visiting professor.