Marvin S. Hill

MARVIN S. HILL, a retired professor of history at Brigham Young University, is coauthor with Elder Dallin H. Oaks of Carthage Conspiracy, an account of the trial of the murderers of Joseph and Hyrum Smith. He has recently completed a followup article on the murders, which will soon be published elsewhere. He is also the author of Quest for Refuge, an award winning history of the L.D.S. church during the lifetime of the founding Mormon prophet.

The Manipulation of History: Can We Manipulate the Past? By Fawn Brodie

Articles/Essays – Volume 5, No. 3

Dialogue 5.3 (Fall 1970): 96–99
Marvin S Hill was responding to Fawn Brodie’s lecture at the Hotel Utah in 1970 called “Can We Manipulate the Past?” Her point in giving it was she was claiming that the people in charge only emphasize the points of history that fit their gains. She then compared that to Church Leaders only focusing on Joseph Smith’s early attitudes towards slavery, but then she claimed that Church Leaders didn’t focus on the fact that in the future he changed his mind regarding Slavery and became more against it, kind of like Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson. Marvin S Hill kept mentioning that she overlooked certain aspects.

An Uncertain Voice in the Wilderness: Sidney Rigdon, Religious Reformer by Mark McKiernon

Articles/Essays – Volume 7, No. 2

Brodie Revisited: A Reappraisal: No Man Knows My History by Faun Brodie

Articles/Essays – Volume 7, No. 4

On the First Vision and Its Import in the Shaping of Early Mormonism

Articles/Essays – Volume 12, No. 1

The First Vision Controversy: A Critique and Reconciliation

Articles/Essays – Volume 15, No. 2

The “New Mormon History” Reassessed in Light of Recent Book on Joseph Smith and Mormon Origins

Articles/Essays – Volume 21, No. 3

The First Vision Controversy: A Critique and Reconciliation

Articles/Essays – Volume 34, No. 1

By Any Standard, A Remarkable Book: Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bushman with the assistance of Jed Woodworth

Articles/Essays – Volume 39, No. 3