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.
Washington's China
The National Security World, the Cold War, and the Origins of Globalism
- Copyright year: 2006
This Waiting for Love
Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance
- Copyright year: 2006
Huerfano
A Memoir of Life in the Counterculture
- Copyright year: 2006
The Lowell Experiment
Public History in a Postindustrial City
- Copyright year: 2006
The Needle's Eye
Women and Work in the Age of Revolution
- Copyright year: 2006
When the Girls Came Out to Play
The Birth Of American Sportswear
- Copyright year: 2006
In the Company of Books
Literature and Its "Classes" in Nineteenth-Century America
- Copyright year: 2006
Captive Histories
English, French, and Native Narratives of the 1704 Deerfield Raid
- Copyright year: 2006
The Book of the Play
Playwrights, Stationers, and Readers in Early Modern England
- Copyright year: 2006
Artists, Intellectuals, and World War II
The Pontigny Encounters at Mount Holyoke College, 1942-1944
- Copyright year: 2006
Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace
New England Crime Literature and the Origins of American Popular Culture, 1674-1860
- Copyright year: 2006
Festivals of Freedom
Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808-1915
- Copyright year: 2003
Charles Horton Cooley
Imagining Social Reality
- Copyright year: 2006
Tolerable Entertainment
Herman Melville and Professionalism in Antebellum New York
- Copyright year: 2006
One Shaker Life
Isaac Newton Youngs, 1793-1865
- Copyright year: 2006
The Athens of America
Boston, 1825-1845
- Copyright year: 2006
"Words for the Hour"
A New Anthology of American Civil War Poetry
- Copyright year: 2005
From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies
Critical Perspectives on Women and Food
- Copyright year: 2005