David D. Hall

David D. Hall has taught at Harvard Divinity School since 1989, and was Bartlett Professor of New England Church History until 2008, when he became Bartlett Research Professor. He writes extensively on religion and society in seventeenth-century New England and England.

His books include The Faithful Shepherd: A History of the New England Ministry in the Seventeenth Century; Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England; Puritans in the New World: A Critical Anthology and A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England. His most recent book, The Puritans: A Transatlantic History, is a general history of Puritanism in England, Scotland, and New England c. 1550 to 1700. Also, he has edited two key collections of documents: The Antinomian Controversy of 1636–1638: A Documentary History and Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England: A Documentary History, 1638–1693.

Another interest is the "history of the book," especially the history of literacy and reading in early America. He edited, with Hugh Amory, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, the first of a five-volume series of which he was the general editor.

Hall continues to study and write about religion and culture in early America, with particular attention to "lived religion."