David Edwin Harrell Jr. (February 22, 1930 – March 15, 2021)[1] was an American historian best known for his scholarship of religion in the United States.
[1] He attended David Lipscomb College as an undergraduate, and Vanderbilt University as a graduate student.
[2] Harrell was a professor at Auburn University, where he served as the Breeden Eminent Scholar of Southern History.
[4] He wrote biographies of Oral Roberts, Pat Robertson, and Homer Hailey, as well as other works about Pentecostalism and the Charismatic movement.
[5] 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.