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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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To Fight Aloud Is Very Brave

American Poetry and the Civil War

By Faith Barrett

University of Massachusetts Press

American Poetry and the Civil War

The Story of the Prisonaires

Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War

History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty

Rhetorical Moments in Black Anticolonialism, 1929-1937

The Language of Nature, the Nature of Language

The Enduring Legacies of the U.S.-Mexican War

The Lives of Peter and Fanny Gulick, 1797-1883

Watertown, Massachusetts, 1630-1680

For God, King, Country, and for Self

Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century

Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-Century American Reform

Keywords of Our Time

A Study in Male Ideology

Traditions and Legacies of Blackface Minstrelsy

Pantheism and the Dark Nature of the American Renaissance

Popular Mores in a Massachusetts County, 1649-1699

Toward a New Genealogy of Public History