Benjamin Colman’s Epistolary World, 1688-1755

William R. Smith is Associate Director of the Helmerich Center for American Research at Gilcrease Museum and Co-Director of the Museum Science and Management graduate program at the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. Specializing in the history of eighteenth-century North America and Atlantic studies, he has taught courses in American religious history and archival studies at the University of Notre Dame, Oklahoma State University, and the University of Tulsa.

“Benjamin Colman’s Epistolary World aims at and largely delivers a solid discussion of transatlantic religious politics in the late Stuart and early Hanoverian eras.” (Carla Gardina Pestana, Church History, Vol. 92 (4), December, 2023)

• Introduction.- 1. Benjamin Colman Travels to England, 1695-1699.- 2.  Nonconformist Histories and the Creation of a Transatlantic Dissenting Narrative Identity, 1717-1735.- 3. An Empire of Books: Spreading Libraries in the British Atlantic World.- 4. The ‘Ties of Political Friendship’ and the Narragansett Property Conflict, 1720-1752.- 5. The Apogee and Fracturing of the Dissenting Interest in the Age of Revival, 1730-1747.- 6. Samuel Davies Travels to England, 1753-1755.