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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.

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The Reverend Jacob Bailey, Maine Loyalist

For God, King, Country, and for Self

By James S. Leamon

University of Massachusetts Press

For God, King, Country, and for Self

Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century

Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-Century American Reform

Keywords of Our Time

A Study in Male Ideology

Traditions and Legacies of Blackface Minstrelsy

Pantheism and the Dark Nature of the American Renaissance

Popular Mores in a Massachusetts County, 1649-1699

Toward a New Genealogy of Public History

A Social History of the Belchertown State School for the Feeble-Minded

Police Training and Nation-Building in the American Century

Birth, Commemoration, and American Public Memory

Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century

Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans

The Anti-Contra War Campaign

Stories

Poems

My Life and Hard Times with Liberation News Service

An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement

The Making of Portland, Maine

The Woman's Building Library at the World's Columbian Exposition

Rethinking Politics in Cold War America

Life, Love, and Literature

Indiana's Lincoln Inquiry and the Quest to Reclaim a President's Past

The Visual and Popular Cultures of the Spanish-American War of 1898

Jews and Puritans in Early America

Collecting American Folk Art, 1876-1976

Robert Kennedy and the Politics of Poverty

African Americans and the American Art Museum

Veterans, Memorials, and the Politics of Healing

The Oneida Nation from the Revolution through the Era of Removal

The Poetry and Prose of Robert Francis

Imagining the East from the Colonial Era through the Twentieth Century

American Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy, 1940-1960

The Politics of Representation in Birdwatching Field Guides

Tracking an Evolving American Geography

How Politicians Cracked Down on Scientists as the Earth Heated Up

Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851-1911

Constructing the Executable Subject

Sexual Health Texts in Early Twentieth-Century America

Masculinity, Religion, and Colonialism in Early New England

And Other Stories

Journalistic Traditions and Transnational Influences

Poems

Cooking by the Book in New England