Marvin S. Hill

Marvin Sidney Hill (August 28, 1928 - July 27, 2016) was a professor of American history at Brigham Young University (BYU) and a historian of the Latter Day Saint movement.

Hill completed his Master of Arts in history at BYU in 1955.He received a Ph.D. in American Intellectual History from the University of Chicago in 1968, studying under Martin E. Marty and writing his dissertation on Christian Primitivism and Mormonism.Hill attended the University of Chicago at the same time as Dallin H. Oaks, and their mutual interest in the murder of Mormon founder Joseph Smith in Illinois led to a ten-year research effort.Together they published the book Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith in 1975, when they were both working at BYU, Hill as a professor of history and Oaks as the university president.The book won the Mormon History Association's best book award for 1976.

Hill was a professor of American history at BYU starting in the 1960s.In 1972 he took leave from BYU to accept a post-doctoral research fellowship at Yale University.He has also served as president of the Mormon History Association and on the board of editors of the Journal of Mormon History.

In Mormon studies, Hill was a well known proponent of the New Mormon History and advocated a "middle ground" approach which didn't seek to describe Mormonism as authentic or fraudulent.

Hill married Lila Foster in 1953.They had six children and lived in Provo, Utah.He was the brother of Donna Hill (1921 - 2007), author of the noted 1977 biography Joseph Smith, the First Mormon. He died in Pleasant Grove, Utah on July 27, 2016.

• 1975: Best Book Award for Carthage Conspiracy with Dallin H. Oaks (Mormon History Association)
• 1977: Best Article By a Senior Author for "The Kirtland Economy Revisited" with C. Keith Rooker and Larry T. Wimmer (Mormon History Association)
• 1989: Best Book Award for Quest for Refuge (Mormon History Association)

Books

• Hill, Marvin S.; Allen, James B., eds. (1972). Mormonism and American Culture. Interpretations of American History. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-042819-8.
• Oaks, Dallin H.; Hill, Marvin S. (1975). Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-00554-6.
• Hill, Marvin S.; C. Keith Rooker; Larry T. Wimmer (1977). The Kirtland Economy Revisited: A Market Critique of Sectarian Economics. Studies in Mormon History. 3. Provo, Utah: BYU Press. ISBN 0-8425-1230-6.Published concurrently in BYU Studies 17.
• —— (1989). Quest for Refuge: The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism. Salt Lake City: Signature Books. ISBN 0-941214-70-2.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Smith, Joseph, Jr. (1995).Marvin S. Hill (ed.). The Essential Joseph Smith. Classics in Mormon Thought. 4. Salt Lake City: Signature Books. ISBN 0-941214-71-0.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Articles

• Hill, Marvin S. (December 1959). "Survey: The Historiography of Mormonism". Church History. 28: 418–26. JSTOR 3162089.
• —— (Spring 1969). "The Shaping of the Mormon Mind in New England and New York". BYU Studies. 9 (3): 351–72.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• —— (Autumn 1970). "The Manipulation of History". Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 5 (3): 96–99. Archived from the original on 2011-08-08. Retrieved 2020-03-27.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• —— (Winter 1972). "Joseph Smith and the 1826 Trial: New Evidence and New Difficulties". BYU Studies. 12 (2): 223–33.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• —— (Summer 1972). "An Uncertain Voice in the Wilderness". Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 7 (2): 54–56. Archived from the original on 2011-08-08. Retrieved 2020-03-27.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• —— (Winter 1972). "Brodie Revisited: A Reappraisal". Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 7 (4): 72–85. Archived from the original on 2011-08-08. Retrieved 2020-03-27.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• —— (March 1974). "Secular or Sectarian History?: A Critique of 'No Man Knows My History'". Church History. 43 (1): 78–96.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• —— (1975). "Quest for Refuge: An Hypothesis as to the Social Origins and Nature of the Mormon Political Kingdom". Journal of Mormon History. 2: 3–20. Archived from the original on 2011-08-08. Retrieved 2020-03-27.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• —— (Spring 1976). "Mormon Religion in Nauvoo: Some Reflections". Utah Historical Quarterly. 44: 170–80. Archived from the original on 2011-08-08. Retrieved 2020-03-27.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• —— (1976). "The "Prophet Puzzle" Assembled; or, How to Treat Our Historical Diplopia toward Joseph Smith". Journal of Mormon History. 3: 101–05. Archived from the original on 2011-08-08. Retrieved 2020-03-27.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• —— (1978). "The Rise of the Mormon Kingdom of God".In Richard D. Poll (ed.). Utah's History. Provo, Utah: BYU Press. pp. 97–112. ISBN 0-8425-0842-2.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• —— (Spring 1979). "A Note of Joseph Smith's First Vision and Its Import in the Shaping of Early Mormonism". Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 12 (1): 90–99. Archived from the original on 2011-08-08. Retrieved 2020-03-27.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• —— (October 1980). "The Rise of Mormonism in the Burned-Over District: Another View". New York History. New York State Historical Association. 61 (4): 411–430.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• —— (September 1980). "Cultural Crisis in the Mormon Kingdom: A Reconsideration of the Causes of Kirtland Dissent". Church History. 49 (1): 286–97.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• —— (Spring 1981). "Joseph Smith the Man: Some Reflections on a Subject of Controversy". BYU Studies. 21 (2): 175–86.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• —— (Summer 1982). "The First Vision Controversy, A Critique and Reconciliation". Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 15 (2): 31–46. Archived from the original on 2011-08-08. Retrieved 2020-03-27.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• —— (1984). "Richard L. Bushman: Scholar and Apologist". Journal of Mormon History. 11: 125–133. Archived from the original on 2011-08-08. Retrieved 2020-03-27.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• —— (Fall 1984). "Money-Digging Folklore and the Beginnings of Mormonism: An Interpretive Suggestion". BYU Studies. 24 (4): 473–488.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• ——. "Dialogue".In Charles H. Lippy (ed.). Religious Periodicals of the United States. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-23420-5.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• —— (Autumn 1988). "The 'New Mormon History' Reassessed in Light of Recent Books on Joseph Smith and Mormon Origins". Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 21 (3): 115–127. Archived from the original on 2011-08-08. Retrieved 2020-03-27.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• —— (June 1989). "Counter-Revolution: The Mormon Reaction to the Coming of American Democracy" (PDF). Sunstone. 13 (3): 24–33.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• —— (Fall 1990). "Afterward". BYU Studies. 30 (4): 117–124.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• —— (Spring 1994). "Positivism or Subjectivism? Some Reflections on a Mormon Historical Dilemma". Journal of Mormon History. 20 (1): 1–23. Archived from the original on 2011-08-08. Retrieved 2020-03-27.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• —— (Summer 2004). "Carthage Conspiracy Reconsidered: A Second Look at the Murder of Joseph and Hyrum Smith" (PDF). Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. 97 (2): 107–34. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-21.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• —— (Fall 2006). "By Any Standard, a Remarkable Book". Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 39 (3): 155–63.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

Other

• Hill, Marvin S. (1955), An Historical Study of the Life of Orson Hyde: Early Mormon Missionary and Apostle From 1805-1852, M.A. thesis, Provo, Utah: Department of History, Brigham Young University
• —— (June 1968), The Role of Christian Primitivism in the Origin and Development of the Mormon Kingdom, 1830-1844, Ph.D. dissertation, Department of History, University of ChicagoCS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)