Marvin S. Hill
Marvin Sidney Hill (born August 28, 1928) is a retired professor of American history at Brigham Young University (BYU) and a historian of the Latter Day Saint movement.
Biography
Hill completed his Master of Arts in history at BYU in 1955.[1] He received a Ph.D. in American Intellectual History from the University of Chicago in 1968, studying under Martin E. Marty[2] and writing his dissertation on Christian Primitivism and Mormonism.[3] 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.[4] 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.[5] In 1972 he took leave from BYU to accept a post-doctoral research fellowship at Yale University.[6] He has also served as president of the Mormon History Association and on the board of editors of the Journal of Mormon History.[7]
In Mormon studies, Hill was a well known proponent of the New Mormon History[8] and advocated a "middle ground" approach which didn't seek to describe Mormonism as authentic or fraudulent.[9]
Hill married Lila Foster in 1953. They have six children and lived in Provo, Utah.[10] He is the brother of Donna Hill, author of the noted 1977 biography Joseph Smith, the First Mormon.[11][12]
Awards
- 1975: Best Book Award for Carthage Conspiracy with Dallin H. Oaks (Mormon History Association)[13]
- 1977: Best Article By a Senior Author for "The Kirtland Economy Revisited" with C. Keith Rooker and Larry T. Wimmer (Mormon History Association)[13]
- 1989: Best Book Award for Quest for Refuge (Mormon History Association)[13]
Writings
Books
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Notes
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External links
- The Marvin S. Hill papers at the University of Utah
- Works by or about Marvin S. Hill in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Photograph of Marvin Hill
