Richard Bushman

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Richard Lyman Bushman is an American historian and academic. He was the Gouverneur Morris Professor of History at Columbia University, where he is currently emeritus. In October 2007, Claremont Graduate University announced that it had appointed Professor Bushman as its Howard W. Hunter Visiting Professor in Mormon Studies. He begins at Claremont in the Fall of 2008. For the academic year 2007-2008, he will hold a Huntington Library fellowship in Pasadena.

Over the course of his career, Professor Bushman has published 11 books, receiving a Bancroft and Phi Alpha Theta prizes as well as the Evans biography awards. His scholarship ranges over the social and cultural history of early America, the political history of colonial New England, American religious history and the history of the Mormon Church. The list of fellowships that he has received is extensive; among them are a Guggenheim Fellowship, Huntington Fellowship, National Humanities Center Fellowship and National Endowment for Humanities Fellowship. In addition to his post at Columbia and his forthcoming post at Claremont, Professor Bushman has also taught at Boston University, Harvard, Brown, University of Delaware and Brigham Young University.

Professor Bushman's most notable published 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 Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling.

1 Biography
2 Publications
- 2.1 As Editor
3 Trivia
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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, Greg Kofford Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-58958-102-9

[edit] 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

[edit] Trivia

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Richard Bushman is the brother-in-law of LDS composer Crawford Gates.
Richard Bushman is one of the featured experts in Mike Winder's 2007 documentary Presidents and Prophets: the Story of America's Presidents and the LDS Church.