Richard Lyman Bushman
Richard Lyman Bushman is Gouverneur Morris Professor of History Emeritus at Columbia University and Chair of the Executive Committee at the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History, Brigham Young University. He is currently writing a cultural biography of Joseph Smith. The author thanks Jed Woodworth and others of the BYU Studies staff for extensive help in preparation of this essay.
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?