Howe, an Associate Professor at Brigham Young University finds salt in everyday locations—the white veins that cut through red sandstone, animal lures set out for deer at sunset, and in the sweat she licks from the base of her...

Salt Lake City—He will acquire manuscripts from authors, fact-check their research, write a blog, leap tall buildings, and quite possibly influence the future of Mormon studies forever. Needless to say, expectations are high for John Hatch, Signature Books’s newest...

Last month Jason Francis graduated from Weber State University. This month he begins as art director and production manager at Signature Books. “Jason is one of the most gifted graduates ever to come from our design department,” says Professor...

Before tackling the historical question of the Apostle Paul, biblical scholar Robert M. Price engaged a colleague at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Bart D. Ehrman, in a national discussion about whether or not Jesus existed. Price is a...

When Mormonism was founded in the 1830s, it was intended to restore primitive Christianity, according to Joseph Smith. However, many of its maiden doctrines and practices were based on the Old Testament. One example of this is the “patriarchal...

A noted Mormon DNA researcher associated with the Mormon defense league known as the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research (FAIR) has posted a concession on the FAIR blog site regarding Native American origins, traditionally a central tenet of...

On Friday, September 21, a documentary history published by Signature Books of Salt Lake City won the 2012 Best Book Award from the John Whitmer Historical Association. The prize was bestowed on The Nauvoo City and High Council Minutes,...

“What an interesting combination of fundamentalism and feminism Laurine Kingston is,” writes Burgess. The midwife even became pro-choice based on her experiences and observations with pregnant women. She retains her beliefs in fundamentalist theology, but now rejects the concept...

The question of how Dinger was able to publish documents used in The Nauvoo City and High Council Minutes which he wasn’t allowed to consult is a good one, but it is something he answered in his book’s preface....

Signature Books has noticed that its competitors for manuscripts (University of Illinois Press, Universtiy of Utah Press, BYU Maxwell Institute) have increasingly turned their books over to the Chicago Distribution Center (CDC), a division of the University of Chicago...