The University of Utah Press (The Press), which falls under the library umbrella, has turned 75 years-old! The Press publishes authors from around the globe, in hardcover, paperback, eBook and audiobook formats and currently has 650 titles in print....
The Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met at Promontory, Utah, one hundred fifty years ago. Andrew J. Russell’s meeting-of-the-railroads photograph “East and West Shaking Hands,” documented the momentous Golden Spike ceremony on May 10, 1869. This year Utah is celebrating the Golden Spike...
University Press Week is here! President Jimmy Carter first proclaimed a “University Press Week” in 1978. A renewed weeklong celebration was created in 2012 by the Association of University Presses (AAUP, now AUPresses) to recognize the vibrant work done by nonprofit scholarly publishers in the...
Award season is upon us and we’ve been thrilled to see the honors received by Press publications. We are especially pleased to announce that Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History by Gregory A. Prince was awarded the Evans Biography Award from the Mountain...
The University of Utah Press is pleased to announce the following recently released books about the State of Utah. Read more...