Harry S. Stout

Harry S. Stout is Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Religious History. Among his publications are The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England (1986) and George Whitefield, Divine Dramatist (1991), and several edited books, including New Directions in American Religious History (1997), with Darryl Hart, Religion in American History: A Reader (1997) with Jon Butler, and Religion and the Civil War (1998). His most recent publication is Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War (Viking Press, 2006). His graduate courses include seminars on American revivalism and Jonathan Edwards, a graduate readings course on religion and American society and a research seminar on the same. He also teaches a junior seminar on The Civil War.