Marvin Sidney Hill (1928–2016) was a professor of American history at Brigham Young University (BYU) and a historian of the Latter Day Saint movement.
Born on August 28, 1928,[citation needed] Hill completed his Master of Arts in history at BYU in 1955.
[1] He received a PhD in American intellectual history from the University of Chicago in 1968 and studied under Martin E. Marty[2] and wrote 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 the Mormon founder Joseph Smith in Illinois led to a ten-year research effort.
[10] He was the brother of Donna Marie Hill (1921–2007), the author of the noted 1977 biography Joseph Smith, the First Mormon.