Catherine E. Kelly

Previous to joining the OI, Dr. Kelly was L.R. Brammer Jr. Presidential Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma as well as editor of the Journal of the Early Republic and of Common-place. A noted scholar of early American history, particularly the lives of women during the Early Republic, she is the author of Republic of Taste: Art, Politics and Everyday Life in Early America and In the New England Fashion: Reshaping Women’s Lives in the Nineteenth Century as well as numerous essays, and co-editor of Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800. Her work has been supported by institutions including the American Antiquarian Society, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Library Company of Philadelphia, Winterthur Museum and Library, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

A Retrospective on the Scholarship of Richard Bushman

Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 3

Among Latter-day Saint academics, few have achieved the professional stature or exerted the intellectual influence of Richard Lyman Bushman. Gordon Wood, a member of the blue-ribbon panel featured here and a scholar with few peers in the historical discipline, calls Bushman “one of our most distinguished American historians.” Generous and dignified as well, Richard Bushman is the proverbial “gentleman and a scholar.” His words and deeds have touched many lives across the span of his more than fifty-year academic career. To commemorate that career on the eve of his eightieth birthday, it seemed fitting to honor him among his professional colleagues and friends at the January 2011 annual meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA).