David Drisko Hall (born 1936) is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

, and was Bartlett Professor of New England Church History, at

Harvard Divinity School Harvard Divinity School (HDS) is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school's mission is to educate its students either in the academic study of religion or for leadership roles in religion, gov ...

Life

Hall was born on July 8, 1936. He graduated from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

, and from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

with a PhD. He is well known for introducing lived religion to religious studies scholarship in the United States, most notably at

Awards

* 1991

Merle Curti Award The Merle Curti Award is awarded annually by the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American social and/or American intellectual history. It is named in honor of Merle Curti Merle Eugene Curti (September 15, 1897 – March ...

Works

* ''The Faithful Shepherd: A History of the New England Ministry in the Seventeenth Century'', Omohundro Institute, 1972 (Harvard Divinity School, 2006, ) * (Harvard University Press, 1990, ) * * *

Editor

* * * (reprint Duke University Press, 2005, ) *

Criticism

"Review: Toleration", ''William & Mary Quarterly'', April 2009

References

Harvard University alumni Yale University alumni Harvard Divinity School faculty Living people 21st-century American historians American male non-fiction writers 21st-century American male writers 1936 births {{US-historian-stub