Timothy L. Smith

Timothy Lawrence Smith
Born	April 13, 1924 South Carolina
Died	January 20, 1997 West Palm Beach, Florida
Nationality	American
Occupation	Historian, Educator
Known for	First American Evangelical Historian to become notable in research and higher education

Timothy Lawrence Smith (1924–1997) was a historian and educator, known as the first American evangelical historian to gain notability in research and higher education.

Smith was born April 13, 1924 in Central, South Carolina, the son of Nazarene ministers. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Virginia, where he was a Thomas Jefferson Scholar and Phi Beta Kappa student, and his doctoral degree in history from Harvard University under Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr.

He has been described as "the first evangelical historian in the U.S. to make it in the secular research university."

Smith began his teaching career at the Eastern Nazarene College (ENC) in 1949 and left in 1954 to take a position at East Texas State University. During his time at ENC, he was the first director of Quincy School Department-sponsored College Courses, Inc., after which fellow Eastern Nazarene history professor Charles W. Akers transformed it into Quincy Junior College and served as its first full-time director. He later went on the teach at the University of Minnesota before becoming director of the American Religious History doctoral program and Chair of the Education Department at the Johns Hopkins University, where he taught for 25 years.

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