PORTLANd FOLKS: Bushman Fireside Dec 1

In case you had not heard

Richard and Claudia Bushman

“Telling Our Stories” and “Joseph and Emma”

Richard and Claudia Bushman will be presenting a fireside at the 98th Avenue Building in the Tualatin Stake on December 1, 2013 at 7:00PM. Claudia Bushman will speak on oral history and women in the Church. Richard Bushman will speak about Joseph Smith and the role that Emma Smith played in his life.

Brother Richard L. Bushman is a nationally known history scholar. He is best known in the church as the author of the biography, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling and a history of the early church titled Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism. He has also acted as Co-General Editor of the Joseph Smith Papers. Brother Bushman has held many prestigious academic positions including the Gouverneur Morris Professor of History at Columbia University and the Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University. Besides his work on LDS Church history, he has written many well-known and respected works on early American social, cultural, and political history. He chairs the Board of Directors of the Mormon Scholars Foundation, which fosters the development of young LDS scholars. He has been a seminary teacher, bishop, stake president, and patriarch and is currently a sealer in the Manhattan Temple.

Sister Claudia Bushman is also a scholar and academic. Most recently she collected and edited oral histories of LDS women into a book titled Mormon Women Have Their Say: Essays from the Claremont Oral History Collection. She has also written several other book about the LDS church: Mormons in America; Contemporary Mormonism : Latter-day Saints in Modern America; Building the Kingdom of God: a History of Mormons in America. She is also well known for editing Mormon Sisters : Women in Early Utah. She has taught at several universities including the University of Delaware, Columbia University, and Claremont Graduate University. She was named New York State Mother of the Year in 2002.

Together, Brother and Sister Bushman are the parents of six children and twenty grandchildren.

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