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3:56 Richard Bushman The Early Years
11:57 A Courting we will go
16:10 Did you fall into religious history?
19:19 Lets get a real church history
23:29 First writing of Joseph
26:00 Reconcile your study with your spirit
28:24 Pushback from the church
31:54 Rough Stone Rolling

Richard Lyman Bushman  is an American historian and academic who serves as the Gouverneur Morris Professor of History emeritus at Columbia University. Bushman taught at Brigham Young University, Harvard University, Boston University, and the University of Delaware before joining the history faculty at Columbia. Bushman is the author of Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, an important biography of Joseph Smith, and he serves as one of three general editors of the Joseph Smith Papers.

Bushman has been called “one of the most important scholars of American religious history” of the late 20th century, and in 2012 a $3 million donation to the University of Virginia established the Richard Lyman Bushman Chair of Mormon Studies in his honor.