Marvin S. Hill papers, 1788-2006

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Hill, Marvin S.
Title
Marvin S. Hill papers
Dates
1788-2006 (inclusive)
Quantity
43.45 linear feet, (68 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, and 13 microfilm reels)
Collection Number
ACCN 1496
Summary
The Marvin S. Hill papers (1788-2006) consist of manuscripts, dissertations, theses, articles, correspondence, book reviews, papers, interviews, journals, documents, newspaper clippings, congressional proceedings, speeches, archival materials, and microfilm.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Marvin S. Hill was born in 1930 in Washington D.C. where he attended high school. In 1955 he graduated from Brigham Young University with a B.A. and M.A. in history. Hill continued his post-graduate training at the University of Chicago where he studied with Martin E. Marty and Sidney E. Mead, the latter of whom strongly influenced Hill's approach towards historical research and methodolgy. Before graduating with a doctorate in American intellectual history from Chicago in 1968, Marvin taught history at Chicago City Junior College, Hammond Indiana Junior College, and East Carolina College. Joining the history department at Brigham Young University in 1966, Hill remained on the staff as a Professor of American History until his retirement in 1993. Throughout a highly productive career, Marvin was the recipient of several prestigious awards. Yale University granted him a post-doctoral research fellowship in 1972. Three years later, Marvin and Dallin H. Oaks received the Mormon History Association's annual award for the best book in Mormon history. The book was entitled Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith. In 1977 the Mormon History Association deemed Hill's co-authored study of the Kirtland Ohio economy as the best article in the field of Mormon history. A banner year for Marvin was the year of 1989.. During that year he was granted two awards, one from the John Whitmer Historical Association and the other from the Mormon History Association. These awards were for the best article and the best book in Mormon historical studies. The book's title was Quest for Refuge: The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism. The last scholarly award which Professor Hill received occurred in 1990 when the John Whitmer Historical Association honored him with a special citation for his "Quest for Refuge" publication. Marvin has published numerous articles in Church History, B.Y.U. Studies, Dialogue, Journal of Mormon History, Utah Historical Quarterly, New York History, Sunstone, and the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. Hill's professional service was also noteworthy. He served as a member of the Mormon History Association's Council, was elected the Association's President, and worked on the editorial boards of the Journal of Mormon History and Dialogue. Within the community of Mormon scholars, Professor Hill achieved the reputation as a defender of the revisionist school of Mormon historiography known as the "New Mormon History." One of Hill's research projects fell victim to the verbal warfare engendered by the historigraphical controversies associated with the emergence and challenge of the New Mormon approach to historical writing. In the midst of working on a book-length project centering on the ten most prominent figures in the history of the Mormonism, Marvin was informed that further access to archival materials pertinent to his study would no longer be available. Consequently, his investigation of Mormon leaders was jettisoned.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Marvin S. Hill papers (1788-2006) consist of manuscripts, dissertations, theses, articles, correspondence, book reviews, papers, interviews, journals, documents, newspaper clippings, congressional proceedings, speeches, archival materials, and microfilm. It is significant to note that not all of Hill's research endeavors resulted in publication. One example is Hill's uncompleted biography of Joseph Smith, which his co-author and sister, Donna Hill, eventually published in 1977. Manuscript evidence of this project can be found in box 22 while research materials are located in boxes 23-38 and 56-57 and in reels 69-77 and 79-81. Information related to Hill's aborted study of the most eminent leaders in Mormon society has been filed in boxes 40-54 and 57-59 and in the three cassettes. Materials related to restrictions, which the L.D.S. Church and the B.Y.U. Library placed upon archival access, can be viewed in box 6. Publications pertaining to the attacks upon and justifications for the "New Mormon History" are housed in boxes 6-7. The unpublished manuscript entitled "New York Mormonism: The Foundation Stones" appears in box 14. Correspondence and assorted materials concerning Ezra Taft Benson's endorsement of the John Birch Society and the L.D.S. Church's reponse to his activities can be accessed in boxes 51-52.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Acquisition Information

Donated by Marvin S. Hill and Julie Myers, 1994-2007.

Processing Note

Folders 1-6 were processed by Lisa DeMille in 1994, 2002 and 2007.

Boxes 2-68 were processed by Roger V. Paxton in 2011.

Separated Materials

Three cassette tapes (A1062), which include materials concerning Brigham Young, Ezra Taft Benson, James Moyle, and the Historian's Letterpress Books, and a CD have been transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Master's Thesis and Doctoral DissertationReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
1 1
Master's Thesis: "A Historical Study of the Life of Orson Hyde, Early Mormon Missionary and Apostle from 1805-1852"
1955
1 2
Correspondence and Manuscript: "Orson Hyde's Trip to the Holy Land, 1841 A.D."
1963-1979
1 3
"A Critical Examination of No Man Knows My History"
1959
1 4
Preliminary Draft of Doctoral Dissertation
1968
1 5
Critiqued Draft of Doctoral Dissertation
1968
1 6
Doctoral Dissertation: "The Role of Christian Primitivism in the Origin and Development of the Mormon Kingdom 1830-1844"
1968
1 7
Correspondence: Doctoral Dissertation
1963-1968
1 8
Biographical Materials: Marvin S. Hill

Correspondence, Book Manuscript, and ArticlesReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
2 1
Reviews: "Mormonism and American Culture"
1973-1974
2 2
Pre-Publication Correspondence: "Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith"
1965-1975
2 3
Post-Publication Correspondence: "Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith"
1975-1987
2 4
Reviews: "Carthage Conspiracy"
1975-1980
2 5
Correspondence and Review: "The Kirtland Economy Revisited: A Market Critique of Sectarian Economics"
1973-1979
2 6
Book Manuscript: "Quest for Refuge: The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism"
1989
2 7
Reviews: "Quest for Refuge: The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism"
1989-1991
2 8
Article: "The Shaping of the Mormon Mind in New England and New York"
1969
2 9
Article: "The Manipulation of History"
1970
2 10
Article: "Joseph Smith and the 1826 Trial: New Evidence and New Difficulties"
1972
2 11
Article and Correspondence: "Brodie Revisited: A Reappraisal"
Includes an exchange of letters between Richard L. Anderson, a B.Y.U. Professor of Religion, and Hill re Anderson's disagreements with Hill's analysis and interpretation of various issues in early Mormon history.
1972-1973
2 12
Article and Correspondence: "Secular or Sectarian History?: A Critique of 'No Man Knows My History'"
Includes a letter from Wesley Walters responding to Hill's article.
1974-1975
2 13
Article: "Quest for Refuge: A Hypothesis as to the Social Origins and Nature of the Mormon Political Kingdom"
1975
2 14
Correspondence: "Mormon Religion in Nauvoo: Some Reflections"
1974-1975
2 15
Article: "The 'Prophet Puzzle' Assembled, or, How to Treat Our Historical Diplopia Toward Joseph Smith"
1976
2 16
Correspondence: "The Rise of the Mormon Kingdom of God"
Appeared as a chapter in Richard D. Poll's "Utah History," which was published in 1978.
1976-1977
2 17
Correspondence and Article: "A Note on Joseph Smith's First Vision and Its Import in the Shaping of Early Mormonism"
1978-1979
2 18
Correspondence and Article: "Cultural Crisis in the Mormon Kingdom: A Reconsideration of the Causes of Kirtland Dissent"
1976-1980
2 19
Correspondence and Article: "Joseph Smith the Man: Some Reflections on a Subject of Controversy"
Originally presented to the Forum Assembly at Brigham Young University in May 1980.
1980-1982
2 20
Correspondence and Article: "The First Vision Controversy: A Critique and Reconciliation"
1982

Articles, Correspondence, and Book ReviewsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
3 1
Comments on Richard L. Bushman's Article "Faithful History"
1969
3 2
Comments on Richard L. Bushman's Conference Paper "Interpreting Joseph Smith to Insiders and Outsiders"
1981
3 3
Article: "Richard L. Bushman -- Scholar and Apologist"
1984
3 4
Correspondence: Richard L. Bushman's Response to "Richard L. Bushman -- Scholar and Apologist"
1985
3 5
Article: "By Any Standard, a Remarkable Book"
2006
3 6
Corresopndence and Article: "Dialogue"
Article was published in the 1986 publication entitled "Religious Periodicals of the United States: Academic and Scholarly Journals."
1982-1984
3 7
Article: "The 'New Mormon History' Reassessed in Light of Recent Books on Joseph Smith and Mormon Origins"
1987-1988
3 8
Article: "Counter-Revolution: the Mormon Reaction to the Coming of American Democracy"
1989
3 9
Article: "Afterword"
1990
3 10
Correspondence and Article: "Positivism or Subjectivism? Some Reflections on a Mormon Historical Dilemma"
1994
3 11
Correspondence and Submitted Article: "Carthage Conspiracy Reconsidered: A Second Look at the Murder of Joseph and Hyrum Smith"
2001-2003
3 12
Article: "Carthage Conspiracy Reconsidered: A Second Look at the Murder of Joseph and Hyrum Smith"
2004
3 13
Book Reviews
1972-1992
3 14
Article and Book Award Certificates and Announcements
1976-1991

Correspondence, Manuscripts, and LecturesReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
4 1
Correspondence and Manuscript Critiques
1975-2006
4 2
Unpublished Manuscript: "Some Thoughts on Mormon History and Mormon Faith"
4 3
Unpublished Manuscript: "Joseph Smith as Some Others Saw Him: Man of Pride, Man of Passion, Man of God"
4 4
Unpublished Manuscript: "The Mormons in American History: Microcosm or Anomaly?"
4 5
Lecture to the John Whitmer Historical Association: "On the Transient and Permanent in Early Mormonism"
4 6
Lecture to the Mormon History Association
1992
4 7
Commentator: Mormon History Association Conference
1976-2003
4 8
Correspondence: Professional
1969-2003
4 9
Correspondence: Personal
1971-1993
4 10
Correspondence: Brigham Young University
1968-1991
4 11
Review and Correspondence: Wilkinson and Skousen's Centennial History of Brigham Young University
1976-1977
4 12
Correspondence: Davis Bitton
1982-1984
4 13
Correspondence: Daniel J. Boorstin
1974-1985
4 14
Correspondence: Newell G. Bringhurst
1976-1995
4 15
Correspondence: Richard L. Bushman
Includes Hill's critique of Bushman's Joseph Smith manuscript which was published in 1984. See Hill's review of the Smith book and Bushman's critique of the review location in box 3, folders 3-4.
1971-1982
4 16
Correspondence and Article: Mario S. De Pillis
1968-1986

Correspondence and History Department MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
5 1
Correspondence: "Dialogue"
1987-1990
5 2
Correspondence: W. Lawrence Foster
1977-1981
5 3
Correspondence: Linda Newell
1982-1986
5 4
Correspondence: Dallin Oaks
1968-2002
5 5
Correspondence: Janice Peterson
1981
5 6
Correspondence: Jan Shipps
1972-1983
5 7
Correspondence: University of Illinois Press
1974-2000
5 8
Correspondence and Council Meeting Minutes: Mormon History Association
1975-1991
5 9
Correspondence and Council Meeting Minutes: Mormon History Association
1992-1993
5 10
Correspondence: Mormon Research Center
1992
5 11
Correspondence: Brigham Young University Students
1975-1991
5 12
Teaching Evaluations and Letters
1974-1980
5 13
Department of History Materials
1974-1992

Lectures, Correspondence, Papers, and ArticlesReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
6 1
Arthur H. King and C. Terry Warner's Lecture and Thomas G. Alexander's Critique
1975
6 2
Racial and Gender Issues: Brigham Young University and Stanford University
1969-1989
6 3
Academic Freedom and Tenure Issues: Brigham Young University
Includes BYU Professor David P. Wright's 1987 Sunstone Symposium paper entitled "Historicity and Faith: A Personal View of the Meaning of Scripture."
1968-1993
6 4
Research Access and Publications Restriction Problems: Brigham Young University and L.D.S. Church Archives
Includes notes from Hill's 1983 meeting with Martin B. Hickman, Dean of the College of Social Sciences, who informed him the source materials on Ezra Taft Benson would no longer be available. Hill was instructed not to publish anything about Benson's life.
1982-1987
6 5
Correspondence: Greenwood Press
1980-1991
6 6
Correspondence: Lists of Prominent Mormon Leaders
1981
6 7
Moses Rischin: "The New Mormon History"
1969
6 8
Reed C. Durham: "Is There No Help for the Widow's Son?" and Correspondence
Durham reported to Hill that he was told not to continue research on the topic of how Freemasonry influence Joseph Smith and the Mormon religion.
1974-1979
6 9
Ezra Taft Benson: Letter, Lecture, and Note
Includes Benson's critique of the "New Mormon" history and his opposition to the re-publication of Allen and Leonard's "The Story of the Latter-day Saints."
1973-1976
6 10
Joe J. Christensen: "The Value of Church History and Historians -- Some Personal Impression"
1977
6 11
Richard Stephen Marshall: "The New Mormon History"
1977
6 12
Leonard J. Arrington: "Clothe These Bone: The Reconciliation of Faith and History"
1978
6 13
Bruce R. McConkie: Letter to Eugene England
1981
6 14
Boyd K. Packer: "The Mantle is Far, Far Greater than the Intellect"
1981
6 15
James L. Clayton: Letter to Boyd R. Packer
1981
6 16
D. Michael Quinn: "On Being a Mormon Historian"
1981
6 17
Lester E. Bush Jr.: "Excommunication and Church Courts: A Note from the General Handbook of Instructions"
1981
6 18
Article: "Apostles and Historians"
1982
6 19
"Salt Lake Messenger"
1982
6 20
"Sunstone Review"
1982
6 21
Leonard J. Arrington: "Reflections on the Founding and Purpose of the Mormon History Association, 1965-1983"
1983
6 22
Marvin E. Marty: "Two Integrities: An Address to the Crisis in Mormon Historiography"
1983
6 23
Davis Bitton: "Ten Years in Camelot: A Personal Memoir"
1983
6 24
Thomas G. Alexander: "Toward the New Mormon History: An Examination of the Literature on the Latter-day Saints in the Far West"
1983
6 25
Jeffrey R. Holland: "Knowledge upon Knowledge"
1983
6 26
Lisa Nicolaysen: "Mormon Attitudes toward Professional History: 1900 to the Present"
1984
6 27
Ezra Taft Benson: "God's Hand in Our Nation's History"
1984
6 28
Peter Novick: "Why the Old Mormon Historians are More Objective than the New: Why that Fact Reflects no Credit on the Old Historians or Discredit on the New Historians"
1989

Articles, Correspondence, and Assorted MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
7 1
Stan Larson: Articles and Correspondence
1985-2002
7 2
Stan Larson: "A Sermon on the Mount: What Its Textual Transformation Discusses concerning the Historicity of the Book of Mormon"
1986
7 3
Thomas G. Alexander: "Historiography and the New Mormon History: A Historian's Perspective"
1986
7 4
C. Robert Mesle: "History, Faith and Myth"
1992
7 5
David E. Bohn: "Pluralism at Brigham Young University"
1992
7 6
Dan Vogel: "An Environmental Approach to the Book of Mormon"
7 7
Hill's Comments on the New Mormon History
7 8
Hill: "Things I Have Learned in the Church and Church History"
7 9
Hill: "Whither Mormon History?"
7 10
Hill's Lecture: "The Revolution in Mormon Studies"
7 11
Leonard J. Arrington Papers: Ownership Dispute
2001
7 12
Interviews: B.Y.U. Deans
7 13
Interview: Ronald W. Walker
1985
7 14
Interviews: James B. Allen and James L. Clayton
1987
7 15
Correspondence: Fawn M. Brodie and Marvin S. Hill
1947-1990
7 16
Correspondence: Edwin A. Sexton
1986
7 17
James B. Allen: Articles
1966-1979
7 18
Thomas G. Alexander: Articles and Papers
19866-1982
7 19
Edward H. Ashment: "Making the Scriptures 'Indeed One in Our Hands': What Happened in the New Editions"
1987
7 20
Milton V. Backman Jr.: "Selected Bibliography of LDS Church History"
7 21
Philip L. Barlow: "Mormons and the Bible: The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion"
1991
7 22
Reed Amussen Benson: "The Development of a Home School"
1981

Theses, Dissertation, Articles, and PapersReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
8 1
Paul R. Cheesman: "An Analysis of the Accounts Relating Joseph Smith's Early Visions"
1965
8 2
George Francis Dow: "History of Topsfield Massachusetts"
1940
8 3
George Ellsworth: "A History of Mormon Missionaries in the United States and Canada, 1830-1860"
1951
8 4
Eugene England: Articles
1966-1989
8 5
Larry Foster: "'Puritan Polygamy': The Development of Distinctive Marriage Ideals and Practices among the Mormons"
1972
8 6
Robert Gottlieb and Peter Wiley: "American's Saints: The Rise of Mormon Power"
8 7
Mark R. Grandstaff: "The Impact of the Mormon Migration on the Community of Kirtland, Ohio, 1830-1839"
1984
8 8
C. Jess Groesbeck: "Joseph Smith and His Individuation: A Psychoanalytic Exploration in Mormonism"
1986
8 9
C. Jess Groesbeck: "Joseph Smith and the Shaman's Vision: A Psychoanalytic Exploration in Mormonism"
8 10
B. Carmon Hardy: "Lords of Creation: Nineteenth Century Mormon Patriarchy"
1992
8 11
Gordon B. Hinckley: "Young Adult Satellite Broadcast"
1985
8 12
Mervin B. Hogan: Address and Manuscript
1974-1976
8 13
Robert D. Hutchins: "Joseph Smith III: The Royal Family and Succession"
1977
8 14
Langdon Gilkey: "Prefatory Remarks"

Papers, Articles, Monographs, and ThesisReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
9 1
Rhett S. James: "Origins of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: A Prophetic History"
1985-1986
9 2
Scott Kinney: "From Kingdom to State: Theological Implications of the Mormon Drive for Statehood"
1980
9 3
Gustive O. Larson: Articles
1958-1965
9 4
Roger D. Launnius: "The Reorganized Church and the Independence Temple: Confession of a Skeptic"
9 5
F. Mark McKiernan: "The Restoration Movement: Essays in Mormon History"
1973
9 6
Sterling M. Murrin: Correspondence, Article, and Interviews
1950-1983
9 7
Sidney E. M. Articles
1963-1971
9 8
Eduard Meyer: "The Origins and History of the Mormons with Reflections on the Beginnings of Islam and Christianity"
1912
9 9
Hugh Nibley: Articles and Lectures
1968-1982
9 10
Grant Palmer: Assorted Materials
1980-1986
9 11
Marianne Perciaccante: "The Mormon-Muslim Comparison"
1988
9 12
D. Michael Quinn: "J. Reuben Clark and the Church"
1980

Autobiography, Articles, Dissertation, Thesis, and PapersReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
10 1
B. H. Roberts: "Life Story of B. H. Roberts" and Articles
1929-1974
10 2
David J. Whittaker: B. H. Roberts' Feelings and Doubts towards the "Book of Mormon"
Recounts conversations of B. H. Roberts with Mark Allen.
1986
10 3
Howard C. Searle: "Authorship of the History of Joseph Smith: A Review Essay"
1981
10 4
Howard Clair Searle: "Early Mormon Historiography: Writing the History of the Mormons 1830-1858"
1979
10 5
Earnest M. Skinner: "Joseph Smith, Sr. First Patriarch to the Church"
1958
10 6
Wilburn D. Talbot: "Brigham Young's Thought and Feelings of Joseph Smith"
1968
10 7
Grant Underwood: Assorted Materials
1985
10 8
Richard S. Van Wagoner and Steven Pratt: "Sarah M. Pratt: the Woman Behind the Controversy"
10 9
Robert Wauchope: "Lost Tribes and Sunken Continents: Myth and Method in the Study of American Indians"
10 10
Book Review: Brigham D. Madsen's "Studies of the Book of Mormon"
10 11
Correspondence: B. H. Roberts to Richard R. Lyman
1927
10 12
Assorted Materials: James E. Talmadge
1930-1957

Articles and CorrespondenceReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
11 1
Letter: Marion G. Romney to David O. McKay
Report on Bruce R. McConkie's "Mormon Doctrine".
1959
11 2
Journal: David O. Mckay
Four journal entries discuss the concern of the First Presidency and the Council of Twelve about the 1,067 errors and misstatements which appeared in McConkie's "Mormon Doctrine" book.
1960
11 3
"McConkie's 'Mormon Doctrine' Changes in Paralell Columns: Changes between First Edition of 1958 and the Second Edition of 1966
1971
11 4
Articles and Papers: Joseph Smith's First Vision
1969-1982
11 5
Articles: The Egyptian Papyri
1968
11 6
Notes: Davis Bitton's "Guide to Mormon Diaries"
11 7
Articles and Materials: The L.D.S. Church and Black Americans
1835-1979
11 8
"Dialogue": Articles
1967-1992
11 9
"Dialogue": Materials
1966-1982
11 10
"Dialogue": Correspondence and Letters to the Editor
1983

Articles and Term PapersReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
12 1
"Journal of Mormon History": Articles
1974-1983
12 2
"Sunstone": Articles
1979-1991
12 3
"Utah Historical Quarterly": Articles
1954-1974
12 4
"The Salt Lake City Messenger"
1968-1986
12 5
Assorted Articles
1953-1986
12 6
Undergraduate Term Papers
1967-1985
12 7
Graduate and Undergraduate Term Papers
1980-1992

Publications and CorrespondenceReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
13 1
Jerald and Sandra Tanner: "Changes in Joseph Smith's History"
13 2
Joseph Smith: "The Elders Journal 1837-1838"
1837-1838
13 3
"John Whitmer's History"
13 4
Jerald and Sandra Tanner: "Joseph Smith and Money Digging"
1970
13 5
"Joseph Smith's History by His Mother"
13 6
William Swartzell: "Mormonism Exposed, Being a Journal of a Residence in Missouri… 1838"
1840
13 7
"Revealing Statements by the Three Witnessed to the Book of Mormon"
13 8
"Senate Document 189: Testimony Given before the Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of the State of Missouri, on the Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr., and Others, for High Treason, and Other Crimes against that State"
1841
13 9
"Joseph Smith's Egyptian Alphabet & Grammar"
13 10
Correspondence: The Issue of the Historicity of "Joseph Smith's Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar" and the Book of Abraham
Includes the correspondence of Klaus Baer, John Wilson, Richard Parker, Grant Heward, Wesley Walters, and Hugh Nibley.
1835-1982
13 11
Interviews: Sandra Tanner
1982

Manuscript, Monograph, and ArticlesReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
14 1
"New York Mormonism: The Foundation Stones": "Testing Joseph Smith as a Translator/Revelator"
Chapter 1 of Hill's unpublished manuscript.
14 2
"New York Mormonism: The Foundation Stones": "Authorship of the Book of Mormon"
Chapter 2.
14 3
"New York Mormonism: The Foundation Stones": "The Primary Source Likely Used for First, Second, and Third Nephi"
Chapter 3.
14 4
"New York Mormonism: The Foundation Stones": "The Primary Source Likely Used for Jacob Through Alma"
Chapter 4.
14 5
"New York Mormonism: The Foundation Stones": "Magic Moroni and the Golden Plates"
Chapter 5.
14 6
"New York Mormonism: The Foundation Stones": "Witnesses to the Golden Plates"
Chapter 6.
14 7
"New York Mormonism: The Foundation Stones": "Priesthood Restoration"
Chapter 7.
14 8
"New York Mormonism: The Foundation Stones": "Joseph Smith's First Vision"
Chapter 8.
14 9
"New York Mormonism: The Foundation Stones": "Conclusions"
14 10
Monograph: "The Kirtland Economy Revisited: A Market Critique of Sectarian Economics"
1977
14 11
Articles: Religion and Secularization
1967-1972
14 12
Articles: Religion in New England
1888-1980
14 13
Articles: Millennialism
1965-1984
14 14
Kenelm Burridge: "New Heaven New Heart: A Study of Millenarian Activities"
1969
14 15
Richard T. Hughes: "Recovering First Times: The Logic of Primitivism in American Life"
14 16
Kenneth A. Lockridge: "A New England Town The First Hundred Years"
14 17
Local Histories: Vermont and New York
1867-1952

Articles, Theses, and PapersReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
15 1
Noble Whitford: "History of the Canal System of the State of New York"
1906
15 2
Article: "The Ancestry of Joseph Smith the Prophet"
1929
15 3
Articles: Mormon Origins and the Palmyra Revival
1957-1985
15 4
Articles: Joseph Smith's First Vision
1966-1984
15 5
Edward T. Jones: "The Theology of Thomas Dick and Its Possible Relationship to That of Joseph Smith"
1969
15 6
Steven L. Olsen: "'The Joseph Smith Story' Structure and Ideology"
1978
15 7
William D. Russell: "The Historicity of the 'Book of Mormon': The Thought of Preexilic Israel and I & II Nephi Compared"
1977
15 8
Ray T. Matheny: "Book of Mormon Archeology"
1984
15 9
John L. Sorenson: "Digging into the Book of Mormon"
1987

Articles, Books, and PapersReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
16 1
The Translation of the "Book of Mormon"
1962
16 2
Articles: "The Book of Mormon"
1964-1970
16 3
H. Michael Marquardt: "The Use of the Bible in the Book of Mormon and Early Nineteenth Century Events Reflected in the Book of Mormon"
1979
16 4
Robert J. Matthews: Joseph Smith's Inspired Version of the Bible
1968-1969
16 5
Max Parking: "Section Irregularities in the Doctrines and Covenants"
16 6
Morton Smith: "Jesus the Magician"
1977
16 7
Articles: Magic and Religion
1959-1982
16 8
Articles and Books: Golden Digging and Gold Diggers
1946-1977
16 9
Ronald W. Walker: "The Persisting Idea of American Treasure Hunting"
16 10
Richard L. Anderson: "The Mature Joseph Smith and Treasure Hunting"
16 11
"New York Mormonism: More than a Salamander"
16 12
Articles: Joseph Smith's Reputation
1970-1980

Articles and Assorted MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
17 1
Grant Ivins: "Notes on the 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith"
17 2
Jerald and Sandra Tanner: "Joseph Smith's 1826 Trial: New Discoveries Prove Court Record Authentic"
1971
17 3
Wesley P. Walters: "Joseph Smith's Bainbridge N.Y. Court Trials"
1974
17 4
Marvin S. Hill: "The 1826 Trial"
17 5
"Letters of Oliver Cowdery, to W.W. Phelps, on the Origin of the Book of Mormon, and the Rise of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints"
1844
17 6
David Whitmer: "An Address to All Believers in Christ"
1887
17 7
Clarissa I. Whitney: "A Critical Analysis of the Forensic and Religious Speaking of Joseph Smith"
1967
17 8
Assorted Materials: Joseph Smith
1841-1990
17 9
Articles: Early Mormon History
1968-1987
17 10
Mormon Communitarianism
1960
17 11
Edward A. Warner: "Mormon Theodemocracy: Theocratic and Democratic Elements"
1973
17 12
Articles and Paper: Missions and Migration
1909-1982
17 13
Joseph W. Barnes: "Obediah Dogberry: Rochester Freethinker"
1974
17 14
Richard L. Anderson: "The Alvin Smith Story: Fact and Fiction"
1987
17 15
Articles: "Improvement Era"
1959-1970
17 16
D. Michael Quinn: "The First Months of Mormonism: A Contemporary View by Rev. Diedrich Willers"
17 17
Pomeroy Tucker: "Origin, Rise, and Progress of Mormonism. Biography of Its Founders and History of Its Church. Personal Remembrances and Historical Collections Hitherto Unwritten"
1867

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18 1
Articles: Mormon Experiences in Kirtland, Ohio
1954-1981
18 2
Local Histories: Missouri
1882-1927
18 3
R. J. Robertson, Jr.: "The Mormon Experience in Missouri 1830-1839"
1974
18 4
Assorted Materials: The Mormons in Missouri
1946-1984
18 5
Warren A. Jennings: "'What Crime Have I Been Guilty Of?': Wards Partridge Letter to an Estranged Sister"
1975
18 6
Charles Manfred Thompson: "The Illinois Whigs Before 1846"
1915
18 7
James LeRoy Kimball, Jr.: "A Study of the Nauvoo Charter 1840-1845"
1966
18 8
James L. Kimball, Jr.: "The Nauvoo Charter: A Reinterpretation"
1971
18 9
Dallin H. Oaks: "The Suppression of the Nauvoo Expositor"
1965
18 10
Dallin H. Oaks and Joseph I. Bentley: "Joseph Smith and Legal Process: In the Wake of The Steamboat Nauvoo"
1979
18 11
Donald Q. Cannon: "The King Follett Discourse: Joseph Smith's Greatest Sermon in Historical Perspective"
1978
18 12
Stan Larson: "The King Follett Discourse: A Newly Amalgamated Text"
1978
18 13
T. Edgar Lyon: "Nauvoo and the Council of Twelve"
18 14
Hamilton Gardner: "The Nauvoo Legion, 1840-1845 -- A Unique Military Organization"
18 15
Lawrence Foster: "A Little-known Defense of Polygamy from the Mormon Press in 1842"
1974

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19 1
Eudocia Baldwin Marsh: "Mormons in Hancock County: A Reminiscence"
1971
19 2
James B. Allen: "One Man's Nauvoo: William Clayton's Experience in Mormon Illinois"
1979
19 3
Articles: Nauvoo Journals
1975-1983
19 4
Bruce A. Van Orden: "Stephen A. Douglas and the Mormons: A Revisionist View"
19 5
Calvin V. French: "Organization and Administration of the Latter-Day Saint School System of Free Education, Common School Through University at Nauvoo, Illinois, 1840-1845"
1965
19 6
Assorted Materials: The Mormons in Illinois
1943-1979
19 7
D. Michael Quinn: "Joseph Smith III's 1844 Blessing and The Mormons of Utah"
1981
19 8
Jerald and Sandra Tanner: "Joseph Smith's Successor: An Important New Document Comes To Light"
1981
19 9
E. Gary Smith: "The Patriarchal Crisis of 1845"
1983
19 10
Dennis Michael Quinn: "The Mormon Hierarchy, 1832-1932: An American Elite"
1976
19 11
Articles: The Mormon Family
1942-1976
19 12
Thomas G. Alexander: "Federal Authority Versus Polygamic Theocracy"
1966
19 13
Charles A. Cannon: "The Awesome Power of Sex: The Polemical Campaign Against Mormon Polygamy"
1974
19 14
Orma Linford: "The Mormons and the Law: The Polygamy Cases"
1965
19 15
Victor W. Jorgensen and B. Carmon Hardy: "The Taylor-Cowley Affair and the watershed of Mormon History"
1980
19 16
Kenneth L. Cannon: Mormon Polygamy, 1890-1906: "Attitudes of Wilford Woodruff, Lorenzo Snow, and Joseph F. Smith toward the Continuation of Polygamy after the Manifesto"
1980
19 17
Gordon C. Thomason: "The Manifesto was a Victory"
1971
19 18
Henry J. Wolfinger: "A Reexamination of the Woodruff Manifesto in the Light of Utah Constitutional History"
1971
19 19
Paul W. Edwards: "William B. Smith: The Persistent 'Pretender'"
1985
19 20
Ronald W. Walker: "The Commencement of the Godbeite Protest: Another View"
1974
19 21
Book Review: Lawrence Foster's 'Religion and Sexuality'"
1981
19 22
Articles: Utah Politics
1958-1970

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20 1
Leonard J. Arrington: Assorted Materials
1956-1978
20 2
Wesley P. Walters: Assorted Materials
1980-1989
20 3
Mervin B. Hogan: "The Cryptic Cable Tow Between Mormonism and Freemasonry"
1970
20 4
Mervin B. Hogan: "The Milieu of Mormonism and Freemasonry at Nauvoo: An Interpretation"
1975
20 5
Mervin B. Hogan: "Mormonism and Freemasonry"
1977-1984
20 6
S. H. Goodwin: "Mormonism and Masonry"
1925
20 7
Kenneth W. Godfrey: "Joseph Smith and the Masons"
1971
20 8
Assorted Materials: Freemasonry
1802-1969
20 9
A Master Mason: "Free Masonry"
1828
20 10
Albert G. Mackey: "An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry"
1920-1925
20 11
Articles: Antimasonry
1977-1984
20 12
Notes: "Christianity in the Development of Colonial America"
Notes from Professor Sidney E. Mead's class.
1955
20 13
Notes: "The Liberal Tradition of Churches in America"
Notes from Professor Sidney E. Mead's class.
1958
20 14
Notes: "The Genius of American Protestantism"
Notes from Professor Sidney E. Mead's class.
1958
20 15
"Religion in America, 1800-1865"
Professor Sidney E. Mead's course outline.
1951
20 16
Bibliographies
1952-1962
20 17
Davis Bitton: "Diaries, Autobiographies, and Other Personal Documents in Salt Lake City Repositories"
1968

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21 1
Notes: U.S. Constitutional History
21 2
Notes and Articles
21 3
Graduate Seminar: Assorted Materials
21 4
Problems in American Church History: Assorted Materials
21 5
Undergraduate Seminar: Assorted Materials
21 6
Class Outlines and Assorted Materials
21 7
Conference Papers: The "Restoration" Theme
1978-1985
21 8
Notes: Dale Morgan and Fawn Correspondence
1944-1946
21 9
Correspondence: John C. Bennett
1950
21 10
Correspondence and Articles
1944-1992
21 11
Correspondence: Marvin and Donna Hill
Correspondence relates to Donna Hill's 1977 Joseph Smith biography. For more information consult the Donna Hill Papers, Accn 1451.
1971

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22 1
Manuscript: Chapter One of Marvin and Donna Hill's Biography of Joseph Smith
22 2
Manuscript: Chapter Two of Joseph Smith's Biography
22 3
Manuscript: Chapters Three-Five of Joseph Smith's Biography
22 4
Manuscript: Chapters Six-Nine of Joseph Smith's Biography
22 5
Manuscript: Chapters Ten-Thirteen of Joseph Smith's Biography
22 6
Manuscript: Chapters Fourteen-Seventeen of Joseph Smith Biography
22 7
Manuscript: "A Principle Means in the Hands of God"
Chapter II of Marvin Hill's book entitled "Quest for Refuge: The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism."
22 8
Manuscript: "I Say Unto You, Be One"
Chapter III.
22 9
Manuscript: "Establishing Israel… by a Theocratic Government"
Chapter IV.
22 10
Manuscript: "In a Military Spirit"
Chapter V.
22 11
Manuscript: "Everything God Does is to Aggrandize his Kingdom"
Chapter VI.
22 12
Manuscript: "If Our Enemies… Deprive Us of Our Rights… We Will Claim Them from a Higher Power"
Chapter VII.
22 13
Manuscript: "To the Wilderness for Safety and Refuge"
Chapter VIII.

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23 1
Materials for a Joseph Smith Biography
23 2
Assorted Materials: The Smith Family
1788-1962
23 3
Assorted Materials: Joseph Smith
1841-1971
23 4
Assorted Materials: Joseph Smith
1828-1971
23 5
"Joseph Smith the Prophet"
23 6
Edward Stevenson: "Reminiscences of Joseph Smith the Prophet and the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon"
1893
23 7
Assorted Materials: Religion in New England
1979-1974
23 8
The Jason Treadwell Murder Trial
1824

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24 1
Assorted Materials: The Book of Mormon
1829-1985
24 2
Assorted Materials: The Book of Mormon
1829-1969
24 3
Assorted Materials: The Book of Mormon
1829-1970
24 4
Assorted Materials: The Book of Mormon
1907-1992
24 5
Ronald W. Walker: "Martin Harris: The First Convert"
1986
24 6
Assorted Materials: The Mormons and the American Indians
1810-1971
24 7
Religion in Europe and in America
1789-1956
24 8
Assorted Materials: Early Mormon History
1810-1931

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25 1
Assorted Materials: Early Mormon History
1830-1961
25 2
Assorted Materials: Early Mormon History
1829-1946
25 3
Joseph Smith's Revelations
1831-1844
25 4
Joseph Smith and the Gold-Digging Materials
1825-1986
25 5
Palmyra Census Data
1820-1830
25 6
Assorted Materials: Palmyra
1815-1970
25 7
Assorted Materials: Palmyra
1818-1969
25 8
Assorted Materials: Kirtland
1815-1974

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Assorted Materials: Kirtland
1830-1893
26 2
Assorted Materials: Kirtland
1831-1956
26 3
Assorted Materials: Kirtland
1830-1963
26 4
Assorted Materials: Kirtland
1831-1970
26 5
Assorted Materials: Kirtland
1832-1886
26 6
Assorted Materials: Kirtland
1834-1864
26 7
Assorted Materials: Kirtland
1832-1878
26 8
Assorted Materials: Kirtland
1824-1859
26 9
Assorted Materials: Kirtland
1827-1940

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27 1
Assorted Materials: Kirtland
1832-1837
27 2
Assorted Materials: Kirtland
1835-1970
27 3
Assorted Materials: Kirtland
1831-1947
27 4
Legal Proceedings: Geauga County, Ohio
1830-1840
27 5
Notes: Kirtland
1830-1841
27 6
Eva L. Pancoast: "The Mormons at Kirtland"
1929
27 7
Max H. Parkin: "Conflict at Kirtland: A Study of the Nature and Causes of External and Internal Conflict of the Mormons in Ohio between 1830 and 1838"
Part I.
1967
27 8
Max H. Parking: "Conflict at Kirtland"
Part II.
1967
27 9
Max H. Parking: "Conflict at Kirtland"
Part III.
1967

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28 1
Oliver Cowdery: Letters
1833-1838
28 2
"The Evening and Morning Star"
1832-1833
28 3
Edward Partridge: Journal
1878
28 4
Assorted Materials: Missouri
1832-1955
28 5
Assorted Materials: Missouri
1830-1965
28 6
Assorted Materials: Missouri
1832-1965
28 7
Assorted Materials: Missouri
1833-1926
28 8
Assorted Materials: Missouri
1836-1966

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29 1
Assorted Materials: Missouri
1833-1973
29 2
Assorted Materials: Missouri
1833-1955
29 3
Assorted Materials: Missouri
1823-1963
29 4
Heber C. Kimball: Journals
1837-1846
29 5
Heber C. Kimball: Journals
1840-1845
29 6
Heber C. Kimball: Journals
1842-1845
29 7
Heber C. Kimball: Journals
1845-1846
29 8
Wilford Woodruff: Journal
1833-1844
29 9
"Times and Seasons"
1839-1842

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30 1
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1839-1842
30 2
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1842
30 3
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1842-1843
30 4
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1842
30 5
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1842

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31 1
Joseph Smith and Politicians
1838-1844
31 2
William Smith: Assorted Materials
1843-1850
31 3
Family Records of Parley Parker Pratt
31 4
Assorted Materials
1830-1899
31 5
Assorted Materials: Kirtland and Nauvoo
1821-1845
31 6
Correspondence
1839-1843
31 7
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1838-1924
31 8
Correspondence
1844
31 9
Documents: Mormon Memorials for Redress against the State of Missouri
1840-1844
31 10
Document: Mormon Memorial Seeking Permission for the Establishment of a Territorial Form of Government
1844

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32 1
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1836-1935
32 2
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1839-1964
32 3
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1841-1855
32 4
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1844
32 5
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1844-1979
32 6
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1839-1979

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33 1
Joseph Smith's Letter Books
1829-1842
33 2
Hyrum Smith: Correspondence
1839
33 3
"The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star"
1841-1844
33 4
"The Voice of Truth"
1844
33 5
"Revised Laws of the Nauvoo Legion"
1844
33 6
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1838-1955
33 7
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1840-1889
33 8
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1834-1939
33 9
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1838-1936

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Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1840-1965
34 2
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1838-1939
34 3
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1841-1865
34 4
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1839-1979
34 5
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1838-1844
34 6
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1836-1956
34 7
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1830-1981
34 8
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1839-1962

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35 1
Assorted Materials: Mormon-Gentile Conflict in Illinois
1839-1847
35 2
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1840-1845
35 3
Assorted Materials: Joseph Smith's Murder
1844
35 4
Assorted Materials: Joseph Smith's Murder
1844
35 5
Jury Panel Records and Joseph Smith Murder Trial Document
1844-1845
35 6
Minutes of the Trial of Members of the Mob Who Helped to Kill Joseph Smith, the Prophet
1844-1845

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36 1
Assorted Materials: Charges, Indictments, and Trials
1844-1846
36 2
Franklin A. Worrell Papers
1844-1974
36 3
The Strang Papers
1846-1850
36 4
William H. Kelly Papers: Interviews and Articles
1881-1893
36 5
Jedediah M. Grant: "A Collection of Facts, Relative to the Course Taken by Elder Sidney Rigdon"
1844
36 6
Notes: Nauvoo
1839-1845
36 7
Assorted Materials
1839-1971

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37 1
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1837-1959
37 2
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1839-1970
37 3
Assorted Materials: Nauvoo
1838-1964
37 4
Assorted Materials: Kirtland and Nauvoo
1832-1967
37 5
Assorted Materials
1821-1981
37 6
Assorted Materials
1818-1974

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38 1
Assorted Materials
1828-1977
38 2
Eber D. Howe: "Mormonism Unveiled"
1834
38 3
Charles G. Finney: "Lectures on Revivals of Religion"
1835
38 4
"The Early Days of Mormonism"
1880
38 5
Stanley B. Kimball: "New Light on the Old Kinderhook Plates Problem"
1981
38 6
Assorted Materials: Polygamy
1837-1925
38 7
Assorted Materials: Polygamy
1841-1973
38 8
Assorted Materials: Polygamy
1842-1960
38 9
"Defence of Elder William Smith against the Slanders of Abraham Burtis and Others"
1844
38 10
Belinda Marden Pratt: "Defence of Polygamy"
1854
38 11
David H. Smith: "The Bible Versus Polygamy"
38 12
"Family Ties: Belief and Practice in Nauvoo"

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39 1
Joseph Smith: "Reply to Orson Pratt"
1870
39 2
Alexander H. Smith: "Polygamy: Was It an Original Tenet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints?"
39 3
Joseph Smith: "One Wife, or Many"
39 4
Helen Mar Whitney: "Plural Marriage as Taught by the Prophet Joseph"
1882
39 5
Helen Mar Whitney: "Why We Practice Plural Marriage"
1884
39 6
The Marriage of Jesus Christ and His Descendants
1899-1977
39 7
Correspondence and Affidavit: Wesley P. Matthews
1971
39 8
Preston Nibley: "What of Joseph Smith's Prophecy that the Constitution Would Hand by a Thread?"
1948
39 9
Correspondence: Leonard J. Arrington and Polygamy
1973
39 10
Polygamy: Articles
1891-1983
39 11
Assorted Comments, Notes, and Materials
39 12
Davis Bitton: "Mormon Biography"
1981
39 13
Assorted Materials
1815-1981
Assorted Notes and Comments

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40 1
Brigham Young Papers
1839-1877
40 2
Brigham Young Papers
1850-1861
40 3
Brigham Young File
1845-1846
40 4
Brigham Young: Documents
1852-1855
40 5
Brigham Young: Documents
1856-1862
40 6
Brigham Young's Office Journal
1853-1863
40 7
"Diary of Brigham Young 1857"
40 8
Correspondence: Brigham Young to Horace S. Eldredge
1858-1859
40 9
Brigham Young's Unpublished Sermons
1862-1865
40 10
Brigham Young's Unpublished Sermons
1863-1866

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41 1
Brigham Young's Unpublished Sermons
1866-1874
41 2
"Unpublished Sermons of Brigham Young"
1978
41 3
Brigham Young: Assorted Materials
1852-1875
41 4
Brigham Young Inventory Lists
41 5
David J. Whittaker: "Brigham Young: A Selected Bibliography"
1980
41 6
Documents
1847-1877
41 7
Correspondence
1844-1874
41 8
Lucy Mack Smith: Manuscript and Letter
1829
41 9
Martin Harris: Letters and Interview
1830-1859
41 10
"William E. McLellin Journal"
1831-1836
41 11
Joseph Knight's Recollections of Mormon History
1827-1844
41 12
Newel Knight's Journal
1831-1845

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42 1
William Clayton's Nauvoo Diaries and Writings
1840-1846
42 2
William Clayton's Journal
1840-1846
42 3
"Journal of Priddy Meeks"
1942
42 4
Interviews: Benjamin and Lorenzo Saunders
1884-1893
42 5
Pomeroy Tucker: "Origin, Rise, and Progress of Mormonism"
1867
42 6
"Journal of Discourses"
1853-1857
42 7
"Journal of Discourses"
1859-1864
42 8
"Journal of Discourses"
1864-1877
42 9
"Millennial Star"
1849-1858
42 10
"Millennial Star"
1859-1876

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43 1
Orson Pratt's Doctrinal Disputes -- Adam God Controversy
1860
43 2
David John Buerger: "The Adam-God Doctrine"
1982
43 3
Assorted Materials: The Mormons and American Blacks
1838-1981
43 4
Assorted Materials: Mormonism
1825-1970
43 5
Assorted Materials
1830-1951
43 6
Assorted Materials
1840-1943
43 7
Assorted Materials
1841-1916
43 8
Assorted Materials
1843-1902
43 9
Assorted Materials
1844-1981

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44 1
Assorted Materials
1854-1984
44 2
Brigham Young: Articles
1980-1959
44 3
Brigham Young: Articles
1960-1977
44 4
Brigham Young: Articles
1978-1983
Brigham Young: Articles
Box Folder
44 6
Brigham Young: Books
1859-1982
44 7
"Seminar on Brigham Young"
1963

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45 1
Jules Remy and Julius Brenchley: "A Journey to Great-Salt-Lake City"
1861
45 2
Mary Van Sickle Wait: "Brigham Young in Cayuga County 1813-1829"
1964
45 3
James B. Allen: "The Man -- Brigham Young"
1968
45 4
Ronald K. Esplin: "Will the Real Brigham Young Please Stand Up: The Biography that Has Never Been Written"
1971
45 5
Elden J. Watson: "Manuscript History of Brigham Young 1846-1847"
1971
45 6
Leonard J. Arrington and Ronald K. Esplin: "The Role of the Council of Twelve during Brigham Young's Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints"
1979
45 7
"Diary of Charles Lowell Walker"
1980
45 8
E. B. Long: "The Saints and the Union"
1981
45 9
Eugene E. Campbell: "Brigham Young: Paradoxical Prophet"
45 10
Assorted Materials
45 11
Articles: Utah and Mormon History
1899-1973
45 12
Articles: Utah and Mormon History
1974-1986

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Biographical Materials: Reed Smoot
1901-1966
46 2
Reed Smoot's Diary
1880-1932
46 3
Correspondence: Reed Smoot and Joseph F. Smith
1903-1905
46 4
Correspondence: Reed Smoot and Joseph F. Smith
1906
46 5
Correspondence: Reed Smoot and Joseph F. Smith
1907-1919
46 6
Correspondence: Reed Smoot and Heber J. Grant
1906-1933
46 7
Correspondence: Joseph F. Smith and B. H. Roberts
Includes letter in which Smith condemns Roberts' opposition to Smoot's re-election to the U.S. Senate.
1908
46 8
Correspondence: Jonathan P. Dolliver
1903-1907
46 9
"Senate Election Cases: Reed Smoot"
1903-1907
46 10
"Proceedings before the Committee on Privileges and Elections: The Reed Smoot Hearings"
1904

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"Proceedings before the Committee on Privileges and Elections: The Reed Smoot Hearings"
1904
47 2
"Congressional Record -- Senate"
1904-1907
47 3
Assorted Materials: The Red Smoot Hearings
1904-1907
47 4
Speeches: U.S. Senate
1905-1907
47 5
Correspondence
1903
47 6
Correspondence
1904
47 7
Correspondence
1905
47 8
Correspondence
1906
47 9
Correspondence
1907-1909

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Carlos A. Badger Materials
1903-1907
48 2
Correspondence
1911-1982
48 3
Oral Interview: Edgar B. Brossard
48 4
Anthon H. Lund Journal and Diary
1896-1911
48 5
Assorted Materials
1888-1983
48 6
L.D.S. General Conference Reports
1930-1940
48 7
"Journal History"
1884-1932
48 8
"Journal History"
1933-1941
48 9
Articles
1903-1941

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Articles
1951-1983
49 2
Newspaper Articles
1902-1941
49 3
"Lives of Our Leaders"
1901
49 4
Frank J. Cannon and Harvey J. O'Higgins: "Under the Prophet in Utah"
1911
49 5
Joseph Benson Foraker: "Notes of a Busy Life"
1916
49 6
Milton R. Merrill: "Reed Smoot: Apostle in Politics"
1950
49 7
C. Eliott Berlin: "Abraham Owen Smoot: Pioneer Mormon Leader"
1955
49 8
Jay R. Lowe: "Fred T. Dubois, Foes of the Mormons"
1960
49 9
Ellen Gunnell Callister: "The Political Career of Edward Henry Callister, 1885-1916"
1967
49 10
Frank H. Jonas: Utah Politics
1961-1969

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50 1
Student Term Papers: Reed Smoot
1981-1982
50 2
John Braeman: "Albert J. Beveridge"
50 3
Assorted Materials
50 4
Autobiographical and Biographical Materials: Ezra Taft Benson
1953-1977
50 5
Speeches: Ezra Taft Benson
1944-1963
50 6
Speeches: Ezra Taft Benson
1964-1983
50 7
L.D.S. Church Archival Materials: Ezra Taft Benson
1950-1955
50 8
L.D.S. Church Archival Materials: Ezra Taft Benson
1943-1949

Archival Materials and CorrespondenceReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
51 1
L.D.S. Church Archival Materials: Ezra Taft Benson
1954-1961
51 2
L.D.S. Church Archival Materials: Ezra Taft Benson
Includes letters of Benson to Joseph Fielding Smith concerning the John Birch Society.
1958-1974
51 3
L.D.S. Church Archival Materials: Ezra Taft Benson
1924-1967
51 4
L.D.S. Church Archival Materials: Ezra Taft Benson
1953-1962
51 5
L.D.S. Church Archival Materials: Ezra Taft Benson
Includes the 1845 letter of William Smith pertaining to the principle of prophet primogeniture found in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants.
1953-1961
51 6
L.D.S. Church Archival Materials: Ezra Taft Benson
Includes Benson's 1957 anti-Semitic manuscript which uses conspiratorial arguments to stress the similarities of goals between communism and Zionism. This material can be found on reel four of the Benson tapes (#28, #29) and appears on pages 15-25 of Hill's. notes. The last section of the memorandum sent to President J. Reuben Clark is entitled "Some Milestones in the March of Zionism to World Power." President Clark noted that some of Benson's ideas were virtual identical to those of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion."
1952-1968
51 7
Archival Notes
Includes information extracted from the Clark papers and the Moyle and Wilkinson diaries.
1940-1976
51 8
California Attorney General's Report on the John Birch Society
1961
51 9
Benson and the John Birch Society
1961-1983
51 10
Correspondence: The John Birch Society and the L.D.S. Church
1961-1966
51 11
"First Presidency Statement: Church Sets Policy on Birch Society"
1963
51 12
Correspondence: Ezra Taft Benson to Joseph Fielding Smith
1963
51 13
Ralph Harding Speech: "Ezra Taft Benson's Support of John Birch Society Is Criticized"
1963
51 14
Correspondence: Dwight D. Eisenhower to Ralph Harding
1963
51 15
Correspondence: Robert R. McKay to Ralph R. Harding
1963
51 16
Correspondence: Joseph Fielding Smith to Ralph Harding
1963
51 17
Correspondence: Ezra Taft Benson's Speech and David O. McKay
1964

Correspondence and Assorted MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
52 1
Correspondence: B.Y.U. John Birch Society Meeting, President Ernest Wilkinson and Ezra Taft Benson
1966
52 2
"B.Y.U. Spy Case": The Seventh East Press
1982
52 3
The Draft Benson for President Movement
Includes a 1958 "Strictly Confidential Memorandum" concerning the issue of Benson retaining his membership on the Council of Twelve while serving as the Secretary of Agriculture under Eisenhower and a discussion with President McKay about the draft Benson. for U.S. President proposal.
1958-1967
52 4
Correspondence: Ezra Taft Benson to Ernest L. Wilkinson
1969
52 5
Correspondence: J. Wilson Bartlett to Stake Presidents and Brother Benson
Proposal to remove Joseph Fielding Smith as Prophet and replace him with Ezra Taft Benson. Letter was sent prior to the convocation of the L.D.S. church's semi-annual meeting in April of one of the three years between 1970 and 1972.
1970-1972
52 6
Correspondence: Ezra Taft Benson to Thayne Robson
1973
52 7
The L.D.S. Church and the Principle of Political Non-Partisanship
1974-1982
52 8
Correspondence: Heber Housing Authority and Socialism
1975-1976
52 9
Speech and Correspondence: "Inflation and Communism"
1976
52 10
Correspondence: J.D. William
1962-1966
52 11
Speech and Correspondence: Ezra Taft Benson and J.D. Williams
1980
52 12
Assorted Materials: Reed A. Benson
1956-1986
52 13
Interview: J. Earl Coke
1976
52 14
Interview: Lera Whittle
1984
52 15
Interview: Sterling McMurrin
1984
52 16
Interview: Mark Allen
1984
52 17
Interview: Wendall Eames
1984
52 18
Correspondence: Vernon H. Jensen
1984
52 19
Alison Bethke: "BF, EB"
1984
52 20
B. Crawford: "Ezra Taft Benson: The Whys of the Right-Wing Conservative"
1982
52 21
Hill's Comments and Notes: Ezra Taft Benson
52 22
Correspondence: Arthur V. Watkins
1954
52 23
"Congressional Record"
1954-1959
52 24
Ezra Taft Benson: "Cross Fire: The Eight Years with Eisenhower"
1962
52 25
Assorted Materials
1946-1979
52 26
Newspaper Clippings and Articles
1943-1960

Newspaper ClippingsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
53 1
Newspaper Clippings
1944-1961
53 2
Newspaper Clippings
1952-1956
53 3
Articles
1952-1960
53 4
Newspaper Clippings
1961-1969
53 5
Newspaper Clippings
1970-1979

Documents and Assorted MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
54 1
Newspaper Clippings
1980-1984
54 2
Trudy Huskamp Peterson: "The Agricultural Trade Policy of the Eisenhower Administration"
1975
54 3
Articles: Benson's Agricultural Policies
1970-1979
54 4
Frank H. Jonas: "Political Dynamiting"
1970
54 5
Salt Lake County Attorney Documents: "Mark Hofmann Interviews"
Vol. 1. Pages 1-147.
1987
54 6
Salt Lake County Attorney Documents: "Mark Hofmann Interviews"
Pages 148-294.
1987
54 7
Salt Lake County Attorney Documents: "Mark Hofmann Interviews"
Vol. 2. Pages 295-418.
1987
54 8
Salt Lake County Attorney Documents: "Mark Hofmann Interviews"
Pages 419-537.
1987

Assorted MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
55 1
Documents: Mark Hofmann Trial Exhibits
1987
55 2
Document: Mark Hofmann's Plea Agreement
1987
55 3
Newspaper Clippings
1981-1986
55 4
"Salt Lake City Messenger"
1986-1987
55 5
"Church History and Recent Forgeries: A Symposium"
1987
55 6
Bibliography and Notes

Letters and Archival MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
oversize-box Folder
56 1
"The Kirtland Letter Book"
1829-1834
56 2
"Copies of Letters, Etc."
1833-1839
56 3
L.D.S. Church Archives: Joseph Smith Materials
1835-1838
56 4
L.D.S. Church Archives: Joseph Smith Materials
1839

Newspaper ClippingsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
oversize-box Folder
57 1
Illinois and Missouri Newspapers
1843-1844
57 2
Illinois and Missouri Newspapers
1845
57 3
Illinois and Missouri Newspapers
1846

Journal HistoryReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
oversize-box Folder
58 1
"Journal History"
1845-1847
58 2
"Journal History"
1848-1851
58 3
"Journal History"
1852-1853
58 4
"Journal History"
1852-1853
58 5
"Journal History"
1858-1859
58 6
"Journal History"
1860-1863

Newspaper ClippingsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description
oversize-box
59
Newspaper Clippings

Research MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description
Box
60
Note Card Bibliography and Notes
61
Note Card Bibliography and Notes
62
Note Card Bibliography and Notes
63
Note Card Bibliography and Notes
64
Note Card Bibliography and Notes
65
Note Card Bibliography and Notes
66
Note Card Bibliography and Notes
67
Note Card Bibliography and Notes
68
Note Card Bibliography and Notes

Microfilm ReelsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Reel
69
Manuscript History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1805-1843
70
Manuscript History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1838-1844
71
Palmyra, New York: "The Reflector"
1829-1831
72
Kirtland, Ohio: "Evening and Morning Star"
1832-1834
73
Kirtland Bank Ledger
74
Illinois Newspapers
75
W. W. Phelps and Warren Parrish: "Book of Abraham Manuscripts"
1837
76
Robert Kent Fielding: "The Growth of the Mormon Church in Kirtland, Ohio"
1957
77
George R. Gayler: "A Social, Economic, and Political Study of the Mormons in Western Illinois, 1839-1846"
1855
78
Edward Leo Lyman: "The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood"
1981
79
Jo Ann B. Shipps: "The Mormons in Politics: The First Hundred Years"
1965
80
Oliver Cowdery: "Letters in Letterbooks to Warren A. Cowdery"
1846
81
"Memorial of Ephraim Owen Jr." and "Latter Day Saints Petition to the U.S. House of Representatives"
1838-1840

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Latter Day Saint churches--History--19th century

Personal Names

  • Brodie, Fawn McKay, 1915-1981--No man knows my history
  • Hill, Marvin S.--Archives
  • Hill, Marvin S.--Critical examination of No man knows my history
  • Hill, Marvin S.--First vision controversy
  • Hill, Marvin S.--Review of No man knows my history

Form or Genre Terms

  • Articles
  • Essays