Publications
Books
- “The Perfect Rule of the Christian Religion”: A History of Sandemanianism in the Eighteenth Century Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008
- “To Hear News from Heaven”: A History of the First Great Awakening in America (Book manuscript--in progress)
Articles
- “’Sober Dissent’ and ‘Spirited Conduct’: The Sandemanians and the American Revolution, 1765-1781,” Historical Journal of Massachusetts XXVIII, No. 2 (Summer 2000): 142-166
Items in Reference Works
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History, Lynn Dumenil and Paul S. Boyer, eds., “Great Awakenings,” New York: Oxford University Press, 2012
- African-American National Biography, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn B. Higginbotham, eds., “Samuel Fraunces,” “Thomas Jeremiah”, “Anthony Johnson”, “Christopher McPherson”, “Vincent Populus”, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008
- Encyclopedia of North American Colonial Conflicts to 1775: A Political, Social, and Military History, Spencer C. Tucker, ed., s.v. “Albany Conference,” “Black Robes,” “Captivity Narratives,” “Gaspee, burning of the (9 Jun. 1772),” “Golden Hill, Battle of (19 Jan. 1770),” “Jesuits,” “Praying Indians/Praying Towns,” “Puritans,” “Quaker Pacifism,” “Rowlandson, Mary White (1653-1678),” “Sons of Liberty,” Santa Barbara: Oxford University Press/ABC-CLIO Publications, 2008
- Britain and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History: A Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia, Will Kaufman and Heidi Slettedahl MacPherson, eds., s.v. “Colonists and Settlers: British in North America,” “Lexington and Concord, Battles of (1775),” “Loyalism and Loyalists (US),” Santa Barbara: Oxford University Press/ABC-CLIO Publications, 2005
- Encyclopedia of New York State, Peter R. Eisenstadt, ed., s.v. “Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,” Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005
- Dictionary of American History, 3rd ed., Andrew Reiser, ed., s.v. “Eagle, American,” New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2002
- Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism, Brenda Brasher, ed., s.v. “Sanctification,” Great Barrington, Mass.: Routledge Press/Berkshire Reference Works, 2001
Essays in Books
- “’Great Multitudes Flocking after Him’: The Great Awakening among Common People,” in John A. Grigg ed., British Colonial America: People and Perspecives (Perspectives in American Social History, Vol. I), Santa Barbara, CA: Oxford University Press/ABC-CLIO Publications, 2008
- “’The Promised Day of the Lord’: American Millennialism and Apocalypticism, 1735-1783,” in Richard Connors and Andrew Colin Gow, eds., Anglo-American Millennialism from Milton to the Millerites (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, Vol. 113), Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2004
- “Yes, the Great Awakening Was a Key Factor Leading to the American Revolution,” in Keith Krawczynski, ed., History in Dispute: The American Revolution, Detroit: Thomson/Gale, 2003
Book Reviews
- Untitled Review of God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution, by Thomas S. Kidd (New York: Basic Books, 2010), The History Teacher (August 2011)
- Untitled Review of Captive Histories: English, French, and Native Narratives of the 1704 Deerfield Raid, by Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006), The Historical Journal of Massachusetts (Summer 2009)
- “Can Two Walk Together, Except They Be Agreed?” review of Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism, by Chris Beneke (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life, Vol. 8, No. 1 (October 2007) http://www.common-place.org/vol-08/no-/reviews/smith.shtml
- “Missed Opportunities,” review of At Ease in Zion: Social History of Southern Baptists, 1865-1900, by Rufus B. Spain (Reprint, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003), H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences (May 2004) www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews
- “One Great Conversation,” review of Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War, by E. Brooks Holifield (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life, Vol. 4, No. 3 (April 2004) www.common-place.org/vol-04/no-/reviews/smith.shtm.
