Founded in 1963, the University of Massachusetts Press publishes scholarship, literature, and books for general readers that reflect the quality and diversity of intellectual life on UMass campuses, in their region, and around the world. UMass Press has sold more than 2,000,000 volumes since its inception, and currently has over 1,400 titles in print.
In recent years, the Press has focused primarily on books in the field of American studies broadly defined—books that explore the history, politics, literature, culture, and environment of the United States—as well as works with a transnational perspective. In addition to publishing works of scholarship, the Press produces books of more general interest for a wider readership and launched its regional trade imprint, Bright Leaf in 2017.
Contested and Dangerous Seas
North Atlantic Fishermen, Their Wives, Unions, and the Politics of Exclusion
- Copyright year: 2020
American Intelligence
Small-Town News and Political Culture in Federalist New Hampshire
- Copyright year: 2020
The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- Copyright year: 2020
Preserving Maritime America
A Cultural History of the Nation's Great Maritime Museums
- Copyright year: 2019
"Theatricals of Day"
Emily Dickinson and Nineteenth-Century American Popular Culture
- Copyright year: 2019
Time for Childhoods
Young Poets and Questions of Agency
- Copyright year: 2020
Shaker Vision
Seeing Beauty in Early America
- Copyright year: 2019
Kids Have All the Write Stuff
Revised and Updated for a Digital Age
- Copyright year: 2019
Faraway Women and the "Atlantic Monthly"
- Copyright year: 2019
"There Is a North"
Fugitive Slaves, Political Crisis, and Cultural Transformation in the Coming of the Civil War
- Copyright year: 2019
Maria Baldwin's Worlds
A Story of Black New England and the Fight for Racial Justice
- Copyright year: 2019
Campuses of Consent
Sexual and Social Justice in Higher Education
- Copyright year: 2019
Contested Ground
The Tunnel and the Struggle over Television News in Cold War America
- Copyright year: 2019
The Case of the Slave-Child, Med
Free Soil in Antislavery Boston
- Copyright year: 2019
Getting Out
Youth Gangs, Violence, and Positive Change
- Copyright year: 2019
Stripped and Script
Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution
In Sullivan's Shadow
The Use and Abuse of Libel Law during the Long Civil Rights Struggle
Food for Dissent
Natural Foods and the Consumer Counterculture since the 1960s
- Copyright year: 2019
The Conspiracy of Capital
Law, Violence, and American Popular Radicalism in the Age of Monopoly
- Copyright year: 2019
Our Suffering Brethren
Foreign Captivity and Nationalism in the Early United States
- Copyright year: 2019