David Edwin Harrell

David Edwin Harrell, Jr. is an American historian who is best known for his scholarship of Religion in the United States. He is a Professor Emeritus at Auburn University, where he served as the Breedan Eminent Scholar of Southern History.^[1] He has written biographies of Oral Roberts and Pat Robertson, as well as other works about Pentecostalism and the Charismatic movement.^[2] In 2006, he published Unto a Good Land: A History of the American People, a college textbook that discusses the effects of religion in the history of the United States.^[3]

Harrell attended David Lipscomb College as an undergraduate, and Vanderbilt University as a graduate student. He received a PhD in 1962.^[4]

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