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 Girls and Boys of Belchertown
A Social History of the Belchertown State School for the Feeble-Minded
- Copyright year: 2012
Modernizing Repression
Police Training and Nation-Building in the American Century
- Copyright year: 2012
Born in the U.S.A.
Birth, Commemoration, and American Public Memory
- Copyright year: 2012
Reading in Time
Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century
- Copyright year: 2012
Bounce
Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
- Copyright year: 2012
A Call to Conscience
The Anti-Contra War Campaign
- Copyright year: 2012
The Agriculture Hall of Fame
Stories
- Copyright year: 2012
Meetinghouses of Early New England
- Copyright year: 2012
Famous Long Ago
My Life and Hard Times with Liberation News Service
- Copyright year: 2012
What We Have Done
An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement
- Copyright year: 2012
Gateway to Vacationland
The Making of Portland, Maine
- Copyright year: 2012
Right Here I See My Own Books
The Woman's Building Library at the World's Columbian Exposition
- Copyright year: 2012
Liberty and Justice for All?
Rethinking Politics in Cold War America
- Copyright year: 2012
Cesare Pavese and America
Life, Love, and Literature
- Copyright year: 2012
Ralph Ellison and the Genius of America
- Copyright year: 2012
Everybody's History
Indiana's Lincoln Inquiry and the Quest to Reclaim a President's Past
- Copyright year: 2012
From Liberation to Conquest
The Visual and Popular Cultures of the Spanish-American War of 1898
- Copyright year: 2011
New Israel / New England
Jews and Puritans in Early America
- Copyright year: 2011
A Kind of Archeology
Collecting American Folk Art, 1876-1976
- Copyright year: 2011