Richard Bushman

Richard Lyman Bushman, Gouverneur Morris Professor of History emeritus at Columbia University, is the author of many books on early American cultural and religious history. He is especially notable for his scholarship on the history of the Latter Day Saint movement and its founder and prophet, Joseph Smith Jr. Bushman was the recipient of the Mormon History Association's annual 2006 Best Book award for the biography Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling.

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Raised in Portland, Oregon, Bushman received AB, AM, and PhD degrees from Harvard University. He taught at Harvard, Brigham Young University, Boston University, and the University of Delaware before Columbia. Bushman and his wife, fellow historian Claudia Bushman, are the parents of four sons (Richard, Serge, Ben, and Carl) and two daughters (Clarissa and Margaret).

Bushman is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He interrupted his undergraduate studies at Harvard to serve as a missionary in New England and Atlantic Canada, and has held various lay positions within the Mormon Church, including Seminary teacher, bishop, stake president, and Stake Patriarch.

From Puritan to Yankee; character and the social order in Connecticut, 1690-1765. Harvard University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-674-32551-6
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling., Alfred Knopf, 2005, ISBN 1-4000-4270-4
Believing History: Latter-Day Saint Essays, Edited by Jed Woodworth. Columbia University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-231-13006-6
Building the Kingdom: A History of Mormons in America,, with Claudia Lauper Bushman. Oxford University Press, ya 2001. ISBN 0-19-515022-8
The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities. Random House, Incorporated , 1993. ISBN 0-679-74414-2
King and People in Provincial Massachusetts. University of North Carolina Press, textbook reprint 1992. ISBN 0-8078-4398-9
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism. University of Illinois Press, 1984. ISBN 0-252-01143-0

The Mormon History Association's Tanner Lectures, with Dean L. May, Reid L. Neilson, Thomas G. Alexander (Editor), Jan Shipps (Editor). University of Illinois Press, 2006. ISBN 0-252-07288-X
Great Awakening: Documents on the Revival of Religion, 1740-1745. Institute Of Early American History, University of North Carolina Press, Textbook reprint 1989. ISBN 0-8078-4260-5