David Edwin Harrell

David Edwin Harrell
Born	(1930-02-22) February 22, 1930 Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.
Education	David Lipscomb College, B.A. 1954; Vanderbilt University, M.A. 1958, Ph.D. 1962
Occupation(s)	Author, historian
Organizations	American Historical Association American Society of Church History Organization of American Historians Disciples of Christ Historical Society American Academy of Religion Southern Historical Association
Known for	Scholarship of American religion
Spouse	Adelia Roberts ​ (m. 1956)​
Children	5

David Edwin Harrell Jr. (born 1930) 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 Breeden Eminent Scholar of Southern History and retired in 2006. He has written biographies of Oral Roberts, Pat Robertson, and Homer Hailey, as well as other works about Pentecostalism and the Charismatic movement. 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.

Harrell was born in Jacksonville, Florida to parents David Edwin (a physician) and Mildred Lee Harrel (a homemaker). He attended David Lipscomb College as an undergraduate, and Vanderbilt University as a graduate student. He received a Ph.D. in 1962.