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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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The End of Victory Culture

Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation

By Tom Engelhardt and Thomas M. Engelhardt

University of Massachusetts Press

Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation

The Social Life of Libraries in the United States

Women's Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship between the Wars

The Life of an African American Soldier and POW Who Spent Twelve Years in Communist China

Narcotic Addiction and Cultural Crisis in the United States, 1870-1920

A Memoir

The First Five Millennia

The Journal of Dr. Elihu Ashley of Deerfield, Massachusetts, 1773-1775

The Publication and Reception of "Silent Spring"

American Naval Hero, 1779-1820

The Unlikely Founder of Women's Basketball

Image and Memory in Writing about Trauma

Slavery, Freedom and the Ambiguities of American Reform

The Architecture of Gridley J.F. Bryant

An Anthology from Aboriginal to Contemporary Times

Thoreau's Walden for the Twenty-first Century

Feminism, History, and Ingeborg Bachmann