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.
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
Required Reading
Sociology's Most Influential Books
- Copyright year: 1998
Epic Season
The 1948 American League Pennant Race
- 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
Cracks in the Pedestal
Ideology and Gender in Hollywood
- Copyright year: 1997
The Monkey's Paw
New Chronicles from Peru
- Copyright year: 1997
Of Many Colors
Portraits of Multiracial Families
- 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
"A Son of the Forest" and Other Writings
- Copyright year: 1997
Anarchy and Culture
The Aesthetic Politics of Modernism
- Copyright year: 1997
Emmanuel Appadocca; or, Blighted Life: A Tale of the Boucaneers
- Copyright year: 1997
The Women Carry River Water
Poems
- Copyright year: 1997
The Lesbian Menace
Ideology, Identity, and the Representation of Lesbian Life
- Copyright year: 1997
The Farm
Life Inside a Women's Prison
- Copyright year: 1997
Rayford W. Logan and the Dilemma of the African American Intellectual
- Copyright year: 1997
Reading Books
Essays on the Material Text and Literature in America
- Copyright year: 1997
John Dee
The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance
- Copyright year: 1997
Language As Object
Emily Dickinson and Contemporary Art
- Copyright year: 1997
African American Women and the Vote, 1837–1965
Restless Spirits
Ghost Stories by American Women, 1872-1926
- Copyright year: 1996
Cultures of Print
Essays in the History of the Book
- Copyright year: 1996
Commonwealth of Toil
Chapters in the History of Massachusetts Workers and Their Unions
- Copyright year: 1996
On the Cultural Achievements of Negroes
- Copyright year: 1996
Justyna's Narrative
- Copyright year: 1996
Diversity
Gender, Color, and Culture
- Copyright year: 1996
Living on the Boott
Historical Archaeology at the Boott Mills Boardinghouses of Lowell, Massachusetts
- Copyright year: 1996
After Frost
An Anthology of Poetry from New England
- Copyright year: 1996
Mastery and Escape
T. S. Eliot and the Dialectic of Modernism
- Copyright year: 1996