Bushman, Richard Lyman

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BUSHMAN, Richard Lyman

BUSHMAN, Richard Lyman. American, b. 1931. Genres: History. Career: Assistant Professor, 1960-66, and Assoc Professor, 1966-68, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah; Professor of History, Boston University, 1968-77; Professor of History, University of Delaware, 1977-89; Professor, 1989-2001, Emeritus Professor of History, 2001-, Columbia University, NYC. Publications: (ed.) Religion at Harvard, 1957; From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut 1690-1765, 1967; (ed.) The Great Awakening, 1970; (co-ed.) Uprooted Americans, 1979; Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism, 1984; King and People in Provincial Massachusetts, 1985; The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities, 1992. Address: Dept. of History, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, U.S.A.

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