Richard Bushman

Image by Richard Lyman Bushman from the 2016 documentary By Study and Also By Faith .

Richard Lyman Bushman (born June 20, 1931 ) is an American historian and Governor Morris emeritus professor of history at Columbia University . Bushman has been recognized as one of the most important scholars on American religious history. In 2012, $ 3 million was spent to establish the Richard Lyman-Bushman Chair in Mormon Studies at the University of Virginia . He is also one of three general editors of the Joseph Smith Papers .

biography

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By Study and Also by Faith Documentary (English)

Richard L. Bushman was born on June 20, 1931 in Salt Lake City , Utah . His father, Ted Bushman (1902–1980), was a fashion illustrator, advertiser, and head of a retail store. His mother, Dorothy Bushman (nee Lyman; 1908-1995), was a secretary. His family moved to Portland when he was a young child.

After graduating from high school in 1949, Bushman served as a missionary in the northeastern United States for two years . After completing his missionary service, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Harvard University in 1955 . His grade for this was magna cum laude . He continued his studies at Harvard and received a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. on the history of American civilization. He studied with the respected historian Bernard Bailyn . Bushman taught at Harvard University, Brigham Young University , Boston University , and the University of Delaware before moving to Columbia University's history department . During the 2007-08 academic year, Bushman served as visiting professor at Claremont Graduate University and was a member of the Huntington Library . Bushman married the historian Claudia Lauper Bushman on August 19, 1955. They are the parents of six children.

Bushman is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . He took a break from Harvard University to serve as a missionary . He served in New England and Canada . He has held various positions in the LDS Church. He has served as a seminary teacher, bishop, stake president, and stake patriarch.

Honors

Richard Lyman Bushman addresses the John Whitmer Historical Association in 2011

Bushman's scholarly work covers the social, cultural, and political history of America. It also covers American religious history and the history of the LDS Church. In 1968 his book From Puritan to Yankee: Character and Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765 won the Bancroft Prize . Bushman also received the Phi Alpha Theta Award and the Evans Biography Awards from Utah State University .

In 2006 he received the Mormon History Association's Best Book Award . That book was Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling . He was president of the Mormon History Association from 1985 to 1986.

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 OCLC 749000008
• 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 OCLC 1154932101
• 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 OCLC 872978355
• Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling. Alfred Knopf, 2005. ISBN 1-4000-4270-4 OCLC 85813960
• 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
• On the Road with Joseph Smith: An Author's Diary . Greg Kofford Books, 2007. ISBN 978-1-58958-102-9 OCLC 123029410
• Mormonism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press , 2008. ISBN 0-19-531030-6 OCLC 179802646

Individual evidence

1. ↑ H. Brevy Cannon: U.Va. Creates Richard Lyman Bushman Chair of Mormon Studies ( en ) October 10, 2012. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
2. ↑ CONTRIBUTOR BIOS ( Memento of 20 November 2008)
3. ↑ Larry Gordon: Mormon studies professorship is California's first . In: Los Angeles Times , October 30, 2007. Retrieved July 22, 2008. 
4. ^ Richard L. Bushman named as Hunter Visiting Professor in Mormon Studies at Claremont . In: Meridian Magazine . Archived from the original on April 1, 2008. Retrieved September 9, 2008. 
5. ↑ Armand Mauss: Farewell, Richard and Claudia . (PDF) In: Claremont Mormon Studies Newsletter . No. 4, Spring 2011, p. 3. Retrieved June 8, 2015.
6. ↑ See "My Faith" in Bushman, Believing History: Latter-day Saint Essays (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), pp. 20-29.
7. ^ Past MHA Presidents . Mormon History Association . Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Retrieved July 22, 2008.

literature

• Jed Woodworth, Claudia Bushman: The Historian's Craft: A Conversation with Richard Lyman Bushman . In: Mormon Historical Studies . 10, No. 2, 2009, pp. 135-73.

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Bushman in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Interview with Richard Bushman by Michael Kress