Gary Scott Smith

Gary Scott Smith is Emeritus Professor of History at Grove City College, where he taught from 1978 to 2017 and chaired the History Department and coordinated the Humanities Core. He earned his MDiv at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and his MA and PhD in History at Johns Hopkins University. In 2001, Smith was named Pennsylvania Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Smith, who specializes in American religious history, is the author or editor of twenty books, including Strength for the Fight: The Life and Faith of Jackie Robinson (2022); Duty and Destiny: The Life and Faith of Winston Churchill (2021); Religion in the Oval Office (2015); Heaven in the American Imagination (2011); and Faith and the Presidency (2006). His op-eds have appeared in the Washington Post, Newsweek, USA Today, and other major newspapers and magazines.