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According to Wikipedia, Richard Lyman Bushman is an American historian and Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, having previously taught at Brigham Young University, Harvard University, Boston University, and the University of Delaware. Bushman is the author of Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, an important biography of Joseph Smith, progenitor of the Latter Day Saint movement. Bushman also was an editor for the Joseph Smith Papers Project and now serves on the national advisory board. Bushman has been called "one of the most important scholars of American religious history" of the late-20th century. In 2012, a $3-million donation to the University of Virginia established the Richard Lyman Bushman Chair of Mormon Studies in his honor.

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The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (1994) (430)
The Economy of British America, 1607-1789 (1987) (265)
From Puritan to Yankee; Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765 (1967) (127)
The Early History of Cleanliness in America (1988) (93)
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (2005) (90)
Joseph Smith and the beginnings of Mormonism (1985) (55)
The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities@@@Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 1760-1860 (1995) (42)
King and People in Provincial Massachusetts (1986) (39)
Markets and Composite Farms in Early America (1998) (36)
Mormonism: A Very Short Introduction (2008) (31)
Building the kingdom : a history of Mormons in America (2002) (23)
American High-Style and Vernacular Cultures (1984) (22)
The Evolution of American Society, 1700-1815: An Interdisciplinary Analysis (1973) (20)
The Great Awakening: Documents on the Revival of Religion, 1740-1745 (1989) (20)
On the Uses of Psychology: Conflict and Conciliation in Benjamin Franklin (1966) (13)
The Book of Mormon and The American Revolution (1976) (13)
What's New in Mormon History: A Response to Jan Shipps (2007) (11)
Mormonism's Negro policy: social and historical origins, (1970) (10)
Society, freedom, and conscience : the American Revolution in Virginia, Massachusetts, and New York (1977) (10)
Mormons in America (1999) (9)
A Cognitive Historical Model for American Material Culture: 1620-1835 (1974) (9)
Uprooted Americans: Essays to honor Oscar Handlin (1979) (9)
Mormon Persecutions in Missouri, 1833 (1960) (8)
The Visionary World of Joseph Smith (1997) (6)
Joseph Smith’s Many Histories (2005) (6)
On the Road with Joseph Smith: An Author's Diary (2005) (6)
Making Space for the Mormons (1997) (5)
The Development of a Revolutionary Mentality (1974) (5)
From Puritan to Yankee (2005) (5)
FAITHFUL HISTORY (1969) (4)
The Lamanite View of Book of Mormon History (1990) (4)
Joseph Smith the Prophet (2011) (4)
THE FIRST VISION STORY REVIVED (1969) (4)
The Great Awakening: The Beginnings of Evangelical Pietism in America@@@The Great Awakening: Documents Illustrating the Crisis and Its Consequences@@@The Great Awakening: Documents on the Revival of Religion, 1740-1745@@@The Great Awakening: Event and Exegesis@@@Religion and the Coming of the Americ (1971) (3)
The Quest for Education (1991) (3)
Jonathan Edwards and Puritan Consciousness (1966) (3)
American Religions and the Rise of Mormonism Milton V. Backman (1966) (3)
Farmers in Court: Orange County, North Carolina, 1750-1776 (2001) (2)
English Franchise Reform in the Seventeenth Century (1963) (2)
The Book of Mormon in Early Mormon History (1987) (2)
Joseph Smith's Family Background (1988) (2)
A Joseph Smith for the Twenty-First Century (2001) (2)
As a Thief in the Night: The Mormon Quest for Millennial Deliverance Dan Erickson (2000) (2)
Joseph Smith in the Current Age (1993) (1)
The Social Dimensions of Rationality (1996) (1)
Was Joseph Smith a Gentleman? The Standard for Refinement in Utah (1999) (1)
Joseph Smith and His Visions (2015) (1)
THE HISTORIANS AND MORMON NAUVOO (1970) (1)
1820-1831, Background, Founding, New York Period (1991) (1)
Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and a Religious Tradition@@@Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism.@@@Brigham Young: American Moses.@@@Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition. (1986) (1)
The Secret History of Mormonism (1996) (1)
1. Joseph Smith’S Presidential Ambitions (2015) (1)
Finding the Presence in Mormon History: An Interview with Susanna Morrill, Richard Lyman Bushman, and Robert Orsi (2011) (1)
The Little , Narrow, Prison of Language: The Rhetoric of Revelation (2000) (1)
A Poet, a Planter, and a Nation of Farmers (1999) (1)
The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America. By John E. Crowley. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. 384 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0–801–86437–2. (2002) (1)
Regional Material Culture: A Review of "The Great River: Art and Society of the Connecticut Valley, 1635-1820" (1986) (1)
The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century: A Social and Cultural History (2018) (1)
What Is the Proper Role of the Latter-day Saint with Respect to the Constitution? (1962) (1)
Shifting Borders and a Tattered Passport (2012) (1)
Freedom and Prosperity in the American Revolution (1978) (1)
Joseph Smith and Creation of the Sacred (2009) (1)
Shifting Borders and a Tattered Passport: Intellectual Journeys of a Mormon Academic (2012) (1)
The Archive of Restoration Culture, 1997-2002 (2006) (0)
Farmers’ Markets: How the Exchange Economy Formed Society (2018) (0)
“From New England to the Great Salt Lake: The Mormon Legacy of Faith.” Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem, MA 01970 (2000) (0)
Hugh Nibley & Joseph Smith (2010) (0)
The Mysteries of Mormonism@@@The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644- 1844@@@The Journals of William E. McLellin, 1831-1836@@@Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess@@@The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power (1995) (0)
Comment on “Conversion in 19th Century Mormonism: Identities and Associations in the Atlantic World” (2012) (0)
6. Nineteenth-century Utah (2008) (0)
Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch Irene M. Bates and E. Gary Smith (1996) (0)
The Character of Joseph Smith: Insights from His Holographs (1977) (0)
From Puritan to Yankee Doodle Dandy@@@The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (1994) (0)
Would Joseph Smith Attend the New York Stake Arts Festival? (2002) (0)
From Mission to Madness: Last Son of the Mormon Prophet . By Valeen Tippetts Avery. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xiv + 362 pp. $49.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. (2000) (0)
Contrast and Connection : Bicentennial Essays in Anglo-American History (2008) (0)
Book Review: Newcastle's New York: Anglo-American Politics, 1732-1753, by Stanley Nider Katz (1969) (0)
The Place of the Eighteenth Century in American Agricultural History (2001) (0)
Founding Farmers: The Contradictions of the Planter Class (2018) (0)
The Early Temples of the Mormons: The Architecture of the Millennial Kingdom in the American West. Laurel B. Andrew (1981) (0)
Connecticut’s Place in the Conception of the Nation (1995) (0)
Book Notes (2004) (0)
Parallels and Convergences: Mormon Thought and Engineering Vision (2012) (0)
Three Essays on the Revolution: Shadows and Substance@@@Society, Freedom, and Conscience: The American Revolution in Virginia, Massachusetts, and New York. (1977) (0)
Husbandmen of Plymouth: Farms and Villages in the Old Colony, 1620–1692. By Darrett B. Rutman. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1967. xi + 100 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, appendix, note on sources, and index. $5.95.) (1968) (0)
7. The Mormon world (2008) (0)
Brigham as Moses (1981) (0)
American Agriculture, 1800–1862 (2018) (0)
The Farm Idea: The Life Plans of Family Farmers (2018) (0)
Revolution: Why Farmers Fought (2018) (0)
In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England. By Keith Thomas. The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures. (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2018. Pp. 356. $95.00 cloth; $45.00 paper.) (2019) (0)
CONSTRUCTION CONNECTIONS AND COMMUNITY (2004) (0)
The Gold Plates as Foundational Text (2018) (0)
[Introduction] (1966) (0)
The Rise and Fall of Civility in America: The Genteel Republic (1996) (0)
Learning Slavery: How Slaves Learned to Be Slaves and Whites to Become Masters (2018) (0)
Cultural Orientations: Migrations West, Migrations North (2001) (0)
Jefferson’s Neighbors: Economy, Society, and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Virginia (2018) (0)
THE ROMANCE OF ANDREW CARNEGIE (1965) (0)
The Nature of the South: The Creation of Sectional Systems (2018) (0)
Joseph Smith and Abraham Lincoln (2005) (0)
Just the Facts Please (1994) (0)
Response (1991) (0)
Book Review: Four British Folkways in America, by David Hackett (1991) (0)
Crowning Assumptions@@@King and People in Provincial Massachusetts. (1986) (0)
David S. Shields. Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, for the Institute of Early American History and Culture. 1997. Pp. xxxii, 348. Cloth $49.95, paper $17.95 (1998) (0)
Not a Rigid Framework (2019) (0)
Family Mobility: The Lincolns of Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois (2018) (0)
Uncas and Joshua: The Acquisition of Connecticut (2018) (0)
Book Review:The Mormon Culture of Salvation: Force, Grace, and Glory Douglas J. Davies (2002) (0)
A Religious History of the American People, By Sydney E. Ahlstrom, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1972. 1158 pp. $19.50 (1973) (0)
TAKING MORMONISM SERIOUSLY (1966) (0)
Response to Mr. Loucks by the Author (1968) (0)
A Note on Sources: How Documents Think (2018) (0)
The Character of Joseph Smith (2003) (0)
Hugh Nibley and Joseph Smith (2010) (0)
After the Golden Age (2012) (0)
New England in the English Nation 1689–1713. By Philip S. Haffenden. (London: Oxford, 1974. xiii + 326 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, and index. $18.50.) (1975) (0)
Treasure-seeking Then and Now (1987) (0)
The Colonization of the Mormon Mind (2000) (0)
The Hill Version of the Prophet’s Life (1978) (0)
Book Review: Martha Bradley-Evans, Glorious in Persecution: Joseph Smith/American Prophet, 1839–1844 (2017) (0)
Crèvecoeur’s Pennsylvania: Farming in the Middle Colonies (2018) (0)
Reading the Gold Plates (2015) (0)
INTRODUCTION: THE FUTURE OF MORMON HISTORY (1966) (0)
JBR volume 3 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1963) (0)
Britain's Big Apple (1998) (0)
Generation of Violence: A Population Explosion Ignites Conflict (2018) (0)
Joseph and Lucy Smith's Tunbridge Farm: An Archaeology and Landscape Study (2022) (0)
Book Reviews:Privacy in Colonial New England, by David H. Flaherty (1972) (0)
Massacre at Mountain Meadows. An American tragedy. By Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley Jr. and Glen M. Leonard. Pp. xvi+429 incl. 40 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. £15.99. 978 0 19 516034 5 (2009) (0)
Sons and Daughters: Provision for the Young (2018) (0)
Two Perspectives on the Life and Times of Joseph Smith (2020) (0)
[Gathering in the Grove] (1980) (0)
The Inner Joseph Smith (2006) (0)
The Balancing Act: A Mormon Historian Reflects on His Biography of Joseph Smith (2006) (0)

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