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.
Capturing COVID
Media and the Pandemic in the Digital Era
- Copyright year: 2025
Inventing the Boston Game
Football, Soccer, and the Origins of a National Myth
- Copyright year: 2024
Writing Themselves into the Movement
Child Authors of the Black Arts Era
- Copyright year: 2024
Making World Literature
Actors, Institutions, and Networks in the United States since 1890
- Copyright year: 2024
Racializing Objectivity
How the White Southern Press Used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow
- Copyright year: 2024
Tasting and Testing Books
Good Housekeeping, Popular Modernism, and Middlebrow Reading
- Copyright year: 2024
Closely and Consciously
Reading and the US Women's Liberation Movement
- Copyright year: 2024
Captain Paul Cuffe, Yeoman
A Biography
- Copyright year: 2024
More Than Blue, More Than Yankee
Complexity and Change in New England Politics
- Copyright year: 2024
Unfracked
The Struggle to Ban Fracking in New York
- Copyright year: 2024
The Precious Birthright
Black Leaders and the Fight to Vote in Antebellum Rhode Island
- Copyright year: 2024