James Howard Hutson (born 1937) was a historian and author of early American history and is considered a leading scholar about the influence of religion during the American founding and has written a number of books and journals on this subject. An alumni and faculty member of Yale University, he was Chief of the Manuscript division at the Library of Congress.^[1]

Hutson received his Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 1964. Since 1982, he has been a member of the History Departments at Yale University and William and Mary College and is Chief of their Library's Manuscript Division.^[2]

Hutson was the supervisory librarian at the Library of Congress. He taught history at Yale University and served as assistant editor of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin.^[3] Hutson was a Coordinator of the American Revolution Bicentennial Programs at the Library of Congress and was a lecturer at the College of William & Mary and Yale University.^[4]

Hutson has written a number of books and journals which include:

• Hutson, James H. (1972). Pennsylvania Politics, 1746-1770: The Movement for Royal Government and Its Consequences. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-6910-4611-2.
• —— (Winter 1980). "Pierce Butler's Records of the Federal Constitutional Convention". The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress. 37 (1): 64–73. JSTOR 29781839.
• —— (1980). John Adams and the diplomacy of the American Revolution. University Press of Kentucky=.
• —— (July 1981). "Country, Court, and Constitution: Antifederalism and the Historians". The William and Mary Quarterly. 38 (3). Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture: 337–368. doi:10.2307/1921952. JSTOR 1921952.
• —— (December 1984). "The Creation of the Constitution: Scholarship at a Standstill". Reviews in American History. 12 (4): 463–477. doi:10.2307/2701897. JSTOR 2701897.
• —— (July 1987). "Riddles of the Federal Constitutional Convention". The William and Mary Quarterly. 44 (3). Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture: 411–423. doi:10.2307/1939764. JSTOR 1939764.
• —— (1989). To make all laws : the Congress of the United States, 1789-1989. Library of Congress.
• —— (1991). The sister republics : Switzerland and the United States from 1776 to the present. Library of Congress.
• —— (2000). Religion and the new republic : faith in the founding of America. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
• —— (2003). Forgotten Features of the Founding: The Recovery of Religious Themes in the Early American Republic. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-0570-2.
• —— (2005). The founders on religion : a book of quotations. Princeton University Press.
• —— (2008). Church and state in America : the first two centuries. Cambridge University Press.

• Bibliography of the United States Constitution