David Drisko Hall (born 1936) is an American historian, and was Bartlett Professor of New England Church History, at Harvard Divinity School.^[1]

Life

Hall was born on July 8, 1936. He graduated from Harvard University, and from Yale University with a PhD.^[2] He is well known for introducing lived religion to religious studies scholarship in the United States, most notably at Harvard Divinity School.

Awards

• 1991 Merle Curti Award
• 2007 A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography

Works

• The Faithful Shepherd: A History of the New England Ministry in the Seventeenth Century, Omohundro Institute, 1972 (Harvard Divinity School, 2006, ISBN 978-0-674-01959-1)
• Hall, David D. (1989). Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-394-50108-6. (Harvard University Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-674-96216-3)
• Puritans in the New World: A Critical Anthology. Princeton University Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-691-11409-5.
• Hall, David D. (2008). Ways of writing: the practice and politics of text-making in seventeenth-century New England. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-4102-0.
• Hall, David D. (2019). The Puritans: A Transatlantic History. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-6912-0337-9.

Editor

• Hall, David D. (1990). The Antinomian Controversy of 1636-1638: A Documentary History. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-1091-4.
• David D. Hall, ed. (1997). Lived Religion in America. Princeton University Press.
• David D. Hall, ed. (1999). Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England: A Documentary History, 1638-1693. Northeastern University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-3613-6. (reprint Duke University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8223-3613-6)
• Hugh Amory; David D. Hall, eds. (2000). The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-48256-1.

Criticism

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