At the Mormon History Association awards banquet yesterday, Edward Leo Lyman, retired Professor of History from Cal State San Bernardino, was presented with the association’s Best Documentary Book Award for his work, Candid Insights of a Mormon Apostle: The...

It seems like yesterday, but it’s been thirty years since Utah approved the incorporation of Signature Books on April 22, 1981. At that time, we had just settled into our first rented office in the Boston Building in Salt...

In 1996 Signature Books attempted to enter the digital age by offering scholars, researchers and enthusiasts a searchable CD Rom that contained all of our non-fiction titles published up to that time. It was an ambitious undertaking. As with...

Salt Lake City—There was a time when Mormons said their temple ceremonies were a pure form of ancient Freemasonry. Contemporary Masonic rituals, said church founder Joseph Smith, were a corruption of what was practiced in Solomon’s temple. While it...

Devery Scott Anderson, editor of The Development of LDS Temple Worship, will talk about his new book at Confetti Antiques and Books in Spanish Fork, Utah, Friday evening, April 1. This new volume is the third book in a...

Congratulations to Jack Harrell and Marilyn Bushman-Carlton for winning book awards Saturday (Mar. 26) from the Association for Mormon Letters! The association gathered at the Utah Valley University Library for its annual two-day conference, and at its Saturday luncheon...

For the first time, the earliest surviving diaries of Joseph F. Smith (b. 1838), will be available. Smith, the sixth president of the LDS Church, served from 1901 until his death in 1918. He was also one of the...

Brigham D. Madsen was one of the most accomplished and approachable Mormon historians of his generation. He died on Christmas Eve at 96 years of age. He had been a professor at Brigham Young University, a vice president of...

Cannon’s diary provides extraordinary insights into diverse aspects of the period’s Mormon experience; it is the best source for social history of Salt Lake City and elite Mormonism from the 1880s and 1890s

Yes, Signature Books is being dragged kicking and screaming into the modern age. You won’t believe it, but we just released our first e-book for Kindle! It’s appropriate that our first e-book would be poetry since the genre lends...