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 Celestial Twins
Poetry and Music through the Ages
- Copyright year: 2000
King Philip's War
Civil War in New England, 1675-1676
- Copyright year: 2000
Write Me a Few of Your Lines
A Blues Reader
- Copyright year: 1999
Broken Contract
A Memoir of Harvard Law School
- Copyright year: 1999
Austin and Mabel
The Amherst Affair and Love Letters of Austin Dickinson and Mabel Loomis Todd
- Copyright year: 1999
Signifyin(g), Sanctifyin', and Slam Dunking
A Reader in African American Expressive Culture
- Copyright year: 1999
Coming of Industrial Order
Town and Factory Life in Rural Massachusetts, 1810-1860
- Copyright year: 1999
Going Wild
Hunting, Animal Rights, and the Contested Meaning of Nature
- Copyright year: 1999
Red Dust and Broadsides
A Joint Autobiography
- Copyright year: 1999
Progressivism and the New Democracy
- Copyright year: 1999
To Heal the Scourge of Prejudice
The Life and Writings of Hosea Easton
- Copyright year: 1999
Love Makes a Family
Portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Parents and Their Families
- Copyright year: 1999
On the Altar of Freedom
A Black Soldier’s Civil War Letters from the Front
- Copyright year: 1999
Making the News
Modernity and the Mass Press in Nineteenth-Century France
- Copyright year: 1999
Celebrating the Fourth
Independence Day and the Rites of Nationalism in the Early Republic
- Copyright year: 1999
The Whole Truth?
A Case of Murder on the Appalachian Trail
- Copyright year: 1999
The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora in America
- Copyright year: 1999
Sacred Places
American Tourist Attractions in the Nineteenth Century
- Copyright year: 1999
The Persistence of Poetry
Bicentennial Essays on Keats
- Copyright year: 1998
In Search of New England's Native Past
Selected Essays by Gordon M. Day
- Copyright year: 1998
The Book of American Windsor Furniture
Styles and Technologies
- Copyright year: 1998
Dr. America
The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927-1961
- Copyright year: 1998
Brotherly Love
Murder and the Politics of Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Rhode Island
- Copyright year: 1998
Mountain River
Vietnamese Poetry from the Wars, 1948-1993
- Copyright year: 1998
The Politics of Courtly Dancing in Early Modern England
- Copyright year: 1998
The Culture and Commerce of Texts
Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century England
- Copyright year: 1998
Exhibiting Contradiction
Essays on the Art Museum in the United States
- Copyright year: 1998
"The Female Marine" and Related Works
Narratives of Cross-Dressing and Urban Vice in America's Early Republic
- Copyright year: 1998
El Coro
A Chorus of Latino and Latina Poetry
- Copyright year: 1997
The Monkey's Paw
New Chronicles from Peru
- Copyright year: 1997
Constructing the Little House
Gender, Culture, and Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Copyright year: 1997
Recipes for Reading
Community Cookbooks, Stories, Histories
- Copyright year: 1997
The Serpent in the Cup
Temperance in American Literature
- Copyright year: 1997
The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois, Volume III
Selections, 1944–1963
- Copyright year: 1978
The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois, Volume II
Selections, 1934–1944
- Copyright year: 1997
The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois, Volume I
Selections, 1877–1934
- Copyright year: 1997
I Am of Ireland
Women of the North Speak Out
- Copyright year: 1997