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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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In the Master's Eye

Representations of Women, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Antebellum Southern Literature

By Susan J. Tracy

University of Massachusetts Press

Representations of Women, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Antebellum Southern Literature

African American Student Activism at the University of Pennsylvania, 1967-1990

The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster

Organized Crime in Cold War America

Escaping Slaves and Abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts

Black Presentation in American Animated Short Films, 1907-1954

Gender and Class in the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society

Cultural Mediations of the Holocaust

Hungarian-Jewish Americans, 1848-1914

Inventing Antiques in Twentieth-Century New England

The Politics of Protest in Massachusetts, 1974-1990

A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom

The Curious History of the Boston Athenaeum

The Story of America's Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman

Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs

Images of the American Scientist as Hero and Villain from Colonial Times to the Present

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200

Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts

Two Years in Harmony with John Milton

Essays on the Legacy of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment

Stories

A Shaker Hymnal

War and Memory in Northern Literature, 1865-1900

Vegetation of Beaches, Tidal Flats, Rocky Shores, Marshes, Swamps, and Coastal Ponds

From Peasant Insurrection to Total War

The Home Front and the Aftermath in American Narratives of the Vietnam War

Black Women's Resistance in the U.S. South and South Africa

Drugs, Race, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature

A Cultural Edition

The Life and Photography of F. Holland Day

White-to-Black Passing in American Culture

New York, the Hudson Valley, and American Culture, 1790-1835

Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment

Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America

From Famine Ireland to Immigrant America

Jazz, Basketball, and Black Culture in 1930s America

A Documentary and Critical Anthology

Destruction and Preservation

Henry Ford's Village Industries

The Superweapon and the American Imagination

The Cultural Life of Jews in Small-Town New England

Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature

The Long, Dirty, Contentious, Incredibly Expensive but Eventually Triumphant History of Boston Harbor-A Unique Environmental Success Story