David Hamilton Golland (born 1971) is an American historian of the 20th-century United States with a focus on the history of civil rights, public policy, politics, and labor.

[2] He served in the United States Army during the Gulf War and was stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri and in Germany at Artillery Kaserne, Neckarsulm.

[citation needed] Golland received a baccalaureate degree in comparative American and European history at Baruch College, where he worked with Cynthia Whittaker, Carol Berkin, Catherine Clinton, Wendell Pritchett, Jane Clement Bond, and Myrna Chase.

[6] Golland's second book, A Terrible Thing to Waste: Arthur Fletcher and the Conundrum of the Black Republican, was published in 2019 by the University Press of Kansas.

[8] Golland's third book, Livin' Just to Find Emotion: Journey and the Story of American Rock, with a foreword by Joel Selvin, was published in February 2024 by Rowman & Littlefield.