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.
The Last Selection
A Child's Journey through the Holocaust
- Copyright year: 1996
The Blues Detective
A Study of African American Detective Fiction
- Copyright year: 1996
Remembering Elizabeth Bishop
An Oral Biography
- Copyright year: 1996
Deep Are the Roots
Memoirs of a Black Expatriate
- Copyright year: 1996
The Viet Nam War/The American War
Images and Representations in Euro-American and Vietnamese Exile Narratives
- Copyright year: 1996
Mapping Mortality
The Persistence of Memory and Melancholy in Early Modern England
- Copyright year: 1996
Decadence and the Making of Modernism
- Copyright year: 1996
Roxana's Children
The Biography of a Nineteenth-Century Vermont Family
- Copyright year: 1995
Labyrinths
Explorations in the Critical History of Ideas
- Copyright year: 1995
The Best of What We Are
Reflections on the Nicaraguan Revolution
- Copyright year: 1995
The Rebel's Silhouette
Selected Poems
- Copyright year: 1995
The Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall
A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime
- Copyright year: 1995
Recovered Land
- Copyright year: 1995
Planets in Peril
A Critical Study of C. S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy
- Copyright year: 1995
After the Future
The Paradoxes of Postmodernism & Contemporary Russian Culture
- Copyright year: 1995
The Postal Confessions
- Copyright year: 1995
Mark Twain on the Loose
A Comic Writer and the American Self
- Copyright year: 1995
C.L.R. James
His Intellectual Legacies
- Copyright year: 1995
Revolution Downeast
The War for American Independence in Maine
- Copyright year: 1995
The Wall in My Backyard
East German Women in Transition
- Copyright year: 1995
Nature Incorporated
Industrialization and the Waters of New England
- Copyright year: 1994
Heart of the Ngoni
Heroes of the African Kingdom of Segu
- Copyright year: 1994
The Heart Is an Instrument
Portraits in Journalism
- Copyright year: 1994
God's Plot
Puritan Spirituality in Thomas Shepard's Cambridge
- Copyright year: 1994
The Education of Mrs. Henry Adams
- Copyright year: 1994
Poems from Captured Documents
A Bilingual Edition
- Copyright year: 1994
Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years
- Copyright year: 1994
Planning the City upon a Hill
Boston since 1630
- Copyright year: 1994
Claude McKay
A Black Poet's Struggle for Identity
- Copyright year: 1994
The Ecological City
Preserving and Restoring Urban Biodiversity
- Copyright year: 1994
Associative Democracy
New Forms of Economic and Social Governance
- Copyright year: 1994
Song of the Sky
Versions of Native American Song-Poems
- Copyright year: 1993
Ousmane Sembene
Dialogues with Critics and Writers
- Copyright year: 1993
Camp Grounds
Style and Homosexuality
- Copyright year: 1993
Boston Marriages
Romantic but Asexual Relationships among Contemporary Lesbians
- Copyright year: 1993
Intellectuals in Exile
Refugee Scholars and the New School for Social Research
- Copyright year: 1993
Alma Mater
Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s
- Copyright year: 1993
Field Guide to Coastal Wetland Plants of the Southeastern United States
- Copyright year: 1993
Unbroken Thread
An Anthology of Plays by Asian American Women
- Copyright year: 1993
The Women's Movements in the United States and Britain from the 1790s to the 1920s
- Copyright year: 1993
New England's Prospect
- Copyright year: 1993
Mill and Mansion
A Study of Architecture and Society in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1820-1865
- Copyright year: 1993
Working-Class Women in the Academy
Laborers in the Knowledge Factory
- Copyright year: 1993
The Culture of Inequality
- Copyright year: 1993
Black Legacy
America's Hidden Heritage
- Copyright year: 1993
Founding Farms
Portraits of Five Massachusetts Family Farms
- Copyright year: 1993