Richard Lyman Bushman
Richard Lyman Bushman is the Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. A version of this article was presented as the Laura Willes Lecture under the sponsorship of the Neal L. Maxwell Institute on September 19, 2024, at Brigham Young University.
BYU Studies Publications
- A Joseph Smith for the Twenty-First Century
- American Religions and the Rise of Mormonism
- Introduction 44:4
- Joseph Smith and Modernism
- Joseph Smith’s Many Histories
- Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch
- Mormon Persecutions in Missouri, 1833
- My Belief
- My Life in Art
- Response to Grant Wacker
- The Archive of Restoration Culture, 1997–2002
- The Book of Mormon and the American Revolution
- The Character of Joseph Smith
- The Genesis of the Joseph Smith Papers Project(2025)
- The Pearl of Greatest Price: Mormonism’s Most Controversial Scripture
- The Visionary World of Joseph Smith
- Translation and the World Order
- What Are We to Make of the Gold Plates?(2025)
- What Is the Proper Role of the Latter-day Saint with Respect to the Constitution?