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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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"A Bold and Hardy Race of Men"

The Lives and Literature of American Whalemen

By Jennifer Schell

University of Massachusetts Press

The Lives and Literature of American Whalemen

Heritage, Ownership, and Intellectual Property

The Smithsonian and the Transformation of the Universal Museum

Domestic Support for the Vietnam War and the Making of Modern American Conservatism

Emotional Labor on Public History's Front Lines

A War Stories Primer

Reimagining Journalism and Civic Life in the Post-Newspaper Age

Family, Community, and the Possibility of Equal Justice under Law

The Politics of Mobility in San Francisco

A Memoir

The Village Voice and the Birth of Rock Criticism

Stories

Poems

Harry Fenn's Career in Art

Gender, Reform, and American Interventions in the Ottoman Balkans and the Near East

A Quotation Sourcebook

The Life and Writings of Mehetabel Chandler Coit

Peace and War on a Sixties Commune