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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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Forever Doo-Wop

Race, Nostalgia, and Vocal Harmony

By John Michael Runowicz

University of Massachusetts Press

Race, Nostalgia, and Vocal Harmony

Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820-1870

Johnny Cash and American Culture

Voices and Visions

Six Minor Leaguers in Search of the Baseball Dream

Love and Loss in the Memoirs of C. S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, and Calvin Trillin

An Irish-American Memoir

Music, Technology, and the Rise of Configurable Culture

Commerce, Culture, and Community on the Eastern Frontier

Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War America

Revolutionary War Veterans, Moral Sentiment, and Political Culture in the Early Republic

War, Sex, and Fantasies of Betrayal

Books and the Popularization of Knowledge

Aesthetics and Survival

Stories

Poems

A Cultural History of Illness, Death, and Loss in New England, 1840-1916

Retracing a Life Erased

A Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783-1861