Jill Mulvay Derr papers. 1977-2007.
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Brigham Young University. Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History
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Derr, Jill Mulvay
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Jill Mulvay Derr (born 1948) is a Mormon historian in Utah. Jill Mulvay Derr was born in 1948 and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. Derr is married to C. Brooklyn Derr, and they are the parents of four children. She earned a bachelors degree from the University of Utah and an MA in teaching from Harvard University. Derr was as an American history professor at Brigham Young University, the director of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History, and the...
Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History
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The Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for LDS History was created in 1980, after it was decided that a university would provide a better setting for research and publication. Before then it was a Church Historian's Office, reorganized into the Historical Department of the Church headed by Leonard Arrington. The primary responsibility of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for LDS History is to research, write, and publish Latter-day Saint history from the perspective of faith and according to the ...