Quote of the day
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
Richard Bushman

Born: June 20, 1931 (age 94)
Bio: Richard Lyman Bushman is an American historian and Gouverneur Morris Professor of History emeritus at Columbia University. He was the Howard W. Hunter Visiting Professor in Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University from 2008 to 2011.
Known for:
- Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (2005)
- Joseph Smith and the beginnings of Mormonism (1984)
- The refinement of America (1992)
- Mormonism: A Very Short Introduction (2008)