Brigham Young University Press
Publishing arm of Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University Press (BYU Press) was the university press of Brigham Young University (BYU).
History
Brigham Young University Press was formed in 1967 through the consolidation of BYU's various publishing activities into one central organization.
In its prime, BYU Press was a robust press publishing in a wide array of subjects, such as interior design, preschools, dancing, and wood-burning, as well as intellectual, scholarly and fine arts titles. In 1974, the press published Roughing it Easy: A Unique Ideabook for Camping and Cooking, by Dian Thomas, which later made the New York Times Best Seller list.
The press also published works for Latter-day Saint readers and scholars, including BYU speeches and symposia proceedings and the periodical BYU Studies. Amongst its major publications in Church history are James B. Allen's Studies in Mormon History series, several of the "Charles Redd Monographs in Western History", the LDS Church's 1965 reprint of A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Fox and Quinn's biographies of J. Reuben Clark, and Davis Bitton's Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies. The press itself received a 1978 Special Citation from the Mormon History Association for encouraging and publishing fine Church histories that year. Many of its LDS books have been published in conjunction with Deseret Book. It also maintained the imprint "Young House" during the 1970s.
BYU Press had a reputation of selecting for publication only church approved material.
“Brigham Young University Press” enters the record as publishing arm of Brigham Young University. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Brigham, Young and University can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 11, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q4967321. VIAF identifies the subject as 123176783. The Library of Congress control number is n82073296. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1967, 1974, 1965 and 1978.
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