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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.
James Laughlin, New Directions Press, and the Remaking of Ezra Pound
- Copyright year: 2005
The Contemporary African American Novel
Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches
- Copyright year: 2005
A Place Called Paradise
Culture and Community in Northampton, Massachusetts, 1654-2004
- Copyright year: 2004
Where the Wild Grape Grows
Selected Writings, 1930-1950
- Copyright year: 2004
Massachusetts at a Glance
A User's Guide to the Bay State
- Copyright year: 2004
The Dispossessed
An Anatomy of Exile
- Copyright year: 2004
Pastkeepers in A Small Place
Five Centuries in Deerfield, Massachusetts
- Copyright year: 2004
The Theater Is in the Street
Politics and Public Performance in 1960s America
- Copyright year: 2004
The Civil War Letters of Colonel Charles F. Johnson, Invalid Corps
- Copyright year: 2004
A Very Dangerous Woman
Martha Wright and Women's Rights
- Copyright year: 2004
Philippe Aries and the Politics of French Cultural History
- Copyright year: 2004
The Makers of Trinity Church in the City of Boston
- Copyright year: 2004
Primer of the Obsolete
- Copyright year: 2004
Disciplining Gender
Rhetorics of Sex Identity in Contemporary U.S. Culture
- Copyright year: 2004
Altering American Consciousness
The History of Alcohol and Drug Use in the United States, 1800-2000
- Copyright year: 2004
Giving Their Word
Conversations with Contemporary Poets
- Copyright year: 2004
Don't Mean Nothing
Short Stories of Vietnam
- Copyright year: 2004
Joint Enterprises
Collaborative Drama and the Institutionalization of the English Renaissance Theater
- Copyright year: 2004