Richard Bushman, Professor Emeritus
Columbia University

About the Speaker:  Richard Lyman Bushman is Gouverneur Morris Professor of History, Emeritus, at Columbia University and the author of Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling.  His first book, From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765 won the Bancroft Prize in 1968.  He taught at Brigham Young University, Boston University, and the University of Delaware before moving to Columbia.  He and his wife, Claudia, live in New York City.

"Joseph Smith's Place in History"
Friday, March 2, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Concert Hall

Reading from "Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rollling"
Saturday, March 3, 2007 at 10:00 a.m. in Coe Library

Sponsored by the University of Wyoming Religious Studies Program, with generous support by the Office of the President, the Office of Academic Affairs, the College of Arts & Sciences, the University Libraries, the University Outreach School, the American Heritage Center, the American Studies Program, the History Department, the English Department, the Creative Writing MFA Program, the University Honors Program, the LDS Student Association, the Laramie, LDS Stake, the Spring Creek Ward, and the Wyoming Humanities Council.