Awards:National Endowment for the Arts grant (1989), , National Endowment for the Humanities grants (1988, 1989, 1993, 1994), , Davis Foundation grant (1990), , Richard Beale Davis Prize (1991), , Annual Best Book Award, Northeast Popular Culture-American Culture Association (2002), , Choice Outstanding Academic Book, (2007)
Thesis:SAMUEL HOPKINS AND THE NEW DIVINITY (1971)
Education:Springfield College (B.S., 1967), Brown University (A.M., 1972; Ph.D., 1975)
Discipline:American Studies
Known for:His work on American and New England Studies
Occupations:Historian, educator, academic, author
Institutions:Rhode Island College, University of Southern Maine
Notable works:Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition, and American Culture (1995), , Imagining New England: Explorations Of Regional Identity From The Pilgrims To The Mid-twentieth Century (2001), , Saints and Strangers: New England in British North America (2006)
Other advisor:Gordon S. Wood
Sub-discipline:American History, New England Studies