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. Bushman's most notable work, ''From Puritan to Yankee: Character and Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765'' won the prestigious Bancroft Prize in 1968, an award considered to be one of the greatest honors for a work on American history.
He is also known 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 ''.

Contents

Biography

Publications

As Editor

Trivia

See also

External links

Biography

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, Karl, Serge, and Ben) 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.

Publications

★ ''From Puritan to Yankee; character and the social order in Connecticut, 1690-1765.'' Harvard University Press, 1967. ISBN 0-674-32551-6

★ ''Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism''. University of Illinois Press, 1984. ISBN 0-252-01143-0

★ ''King and People in Provincial Massachusetts''. University of North Carolina Press, textbook reprint 1992. ISBN 0-8078-4398-9

★ ''The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities''. Random House, Incorporated , 1993. ISBN 0-679-74414-2

★ ''Building the Kingdom: A History of Mormons in America'',, with Claudia Lauper Bushman. Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-19-515022-8

★ ''Believing History: Latter-Day Saint Essays'', Edited by Jed Woodworth. Columbia University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-231-13006-6

★ ''Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling.'', Alfred Knopf, 2005, ISBN 1-4000-4270-4

★ ''On the Road with Joseph Smith: An Author's Diary'', Kofford Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-58958-102-9

As Editor

★ ''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

Trivia

★ Richard Bushman is the brother-in-law of LDS composer Crawford Gates.

See also

★ Latter Day Saint Historians

★ Mormonism and history

External links

★ "F.A.I.R. Bookstore" - Online LDS bookstore.

★ "The Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History" - Richard Bushman's autobiography

★ "Interview with Richard Bushman" by Michael Kress, Beliefnet

★ Interview with Richard Bushman "Experiences as a Mormon historian" by John Dehlin, Mormon Stories