Bushman, Richard Lyman

Richard Lyman Bushman, Gouverneur Morris Professor of History, Emeritus, at Columbia University, grew up in Portland, Oregon, and earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University. He has also taught at Brigham Young University, Boston University, and the University of Delaware. His "From Puritan to Yankee: Character and Social Order in Connecticut, 1690"-"1765" won the Bancroft Prize in 1967. His other books include "Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism" (1984), winner of the Evans Biography Award; "King and People in Provincial Massachusetts" (1985); and "The Refi...