J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections
Mario S. De Pillis papers
De Pillis, Mario S.
ACCN 2507
0.75 linear feet
1957-2008
The Mario S. De Pillis papers (1957-2008) consist of correspondence, reviews, and other materials. De Pillis, a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, specialized in the social history of the United States and in the history of American religion, with particular emphasis on Mormonsim and Shakerism.
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Mario S. De Pillis was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1926. He received a B.A. degree in 1952 and a M.A. degree in history at the University of Chicago in 1954. Continuing his graduate studies at Yale University, he earned a M.A. and a Ph.D. degree in 1956 and 1961 respectively. His dissertation was awarded the George Washington Egleston Prize in American History. In 1958 Professor De Pillis commenced his academic career as an instructor of American religious and social history at the University of Masachusetts at Amherst where he became a full professor in 1976. He also taught at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Munich, the University of Freiburg and the University of Konstanz. A founding member of the
Journal of Social History, De Pillis served on the editorial board from 1966 until 2002. He was a member of the board of editors for the Journal of Mormon History as well as a member of the board of directors for the Mormon Historical Association and the Communal Studies Association. From 1982 through 1987, De Pillis edited the journal of Communal Societies. Some of his publications on Mormon history appeared in Dialogue, the Journal of Social History, Church History, the Journal of Mormon History, and Sunstone. In 1993 De Pillis became president of the Mormon History Association.
The Mario S. De Pillis papers (1957-2008) consist of correspondence, reviews and other materials. Among this correpondence are letters with Fawn Brodie, Daniel Boorstin, Richard Brown, Newell Bringhurst, Lavina Fielding Anderson, Danny Jorgensen, Bill Mulder, Polly Aird, Michael Quinn, Lawrence Foster, and Peter Stearns. Particularly noteworthy are the communications associated with the founding and the development of one of America's premier historical journals, the
Journal Of Social History.
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Donated by Mario S. De Pillis in 2009 and 2011.
Processed by Roger V. Paxton in 2010.
Addendum processed by Betsey Welland in 2019.
De Pillis, Mario S.
Latter Day Saint churches--History
Shakers--History
Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Correspondence
Reviews (Criticism)
Correspondence, reviews and assorted materials
Correspondence: Fawn M. Brodie
1957-1958
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Correspondence: Gertrude Tingelstad
1957
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Correspondence: Theodore C. Blegen
1958-1960
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Correspondence: W.H.G. Armytage
1958-1963
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Correspondence: Lloyd Hustvedt
1959-1960
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Correspondence: Helen Thane Katz
1959-1962
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Correspondence: Kenneth O. Bjork
1960-1969
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Correspondence: Daniel J. Boorstin
1961-1965
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Correspondence: Editors of "Arizona and the West"
1962-1964
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Correspondence: Loren Bartz
1963
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Correspondence: John Caughey
1963
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Correspondence: Richard H. Brown
1964-1971
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Correspondence: Vernon Carstensen
1965-1966
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Correspondence: American Consulate in Munich, Germany
1966-1967
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Correspondence: Paul Carter
1966-1977
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Correspondence: Theodore Baird
1966
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Correspondence: Klaus Baer
1968
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Correspondence: Peter Crawley
1969
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Correspondence: Robert Berkhofer
1969
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Correspondence: Lois W. Banner
1978-1979
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Correspondence: Paul Boyer
1981-1987
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Correspondence: the Museum of Our National Heritage
1982-1983
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Correspondence: Gilmer W. Blackburn
1986-1987
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Correspondence: Nancy E. Sephton
1987
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Correspondence: David J. Whitaker
1989
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Correspondence: John E. Hallwas
1989
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Correspondence: Jessie L. Embry
1992-2000
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Correspondence: Newell G. Bringhurst
1989-2006
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Correspondence: Lavina Fielding Anderson
1992-2006
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Correspondence: Armand L. Mauss
1998
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Correspondence: Ronald K. Esplin
2000
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Correspondence: Richard L. Bushman
2001
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Correspondence: Stephen Carter
2001
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Correspondence: Randy Cornelius
2001
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Correspondence: Danny L. Jorgensen
2001
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Correspondence: Joni Wilson
2001
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Correspondence: Bill Mulder
2001-2002
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Correspondence: Polly Aird
2001-2003
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Correspondence: Billie Young
2002
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Correspondence: Mary L. Bradford
2002
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Correspondence: Stan Larson
2002
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Correspondence: Members of "Voice of the Faithful"
2002-2003
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Correspondence: Michael Quinn
2003-2006
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Correspondence: Brenda Case Scheer
2003
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Correspondence: Stephen Fleming
2003
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Correspondence: Roger Launius
2004
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Correspondence: W. Grant Murray
2004
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Correspondence: Lawrence Foster
2004-2007
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Correspondence: Philip Barlow
2007
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Correspondence: Lynn Rainard
2007
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Correspondence: the Hancock Shaker Village
2008
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Correspondence: Bill Russell
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Correspondence: Kenneth Feinberg
1981-1983
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Correspondence: General
1981-2001
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Article: "Mormons Get Revelations Often, but Not Like This"
1978
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Review: Michael S. Raber's Manuscript
1981-1982
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Review of the "Encyclopedia of Mormonism" and the Critiques of Bunner and Barlow
1993-1995
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Interview: "Salt Lake City Tribune"
1994
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Introduction and Correspondence: Tanner Lecturer Howard R. Lamar
1955
1987
1996
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Joseph Fielding Smith Institute Visiting Scholar Fellowship
2000-2001
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Curriculum vitae
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"Journal of Social History"
Correspondence
1965-1967
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Correspondence
1968-1970
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Correspondence
1972-2002
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