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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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Charlotte Delbo

A Life Reclaimed

University of Massachusetts Press
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Charlotte Delbo

A Life Reclaimed

University of Massachusetts Press
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Sailing to Freedom

Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad

University of Massachusetts Press
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Patmos

University of Massachusetts Press
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How to Love Everyone and Almost Get Away with It

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2021
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White Space

Essays on Culture, Race, & Writing

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Deposition

University of Massachusetts Press
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Silver Beach

University of Massachusetts Press
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A Drunkard's Defense

Alcohol, Murder, and Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century America

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Where Is Juliet Stuart Poyntz?

Gender, Spycraft, and Anti-Stalinism in the Early Cold War

University of Massachusetts Press
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The Persistence of Slavery

An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria

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  • Copyright year: 2021
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Templates for Authorship

American Women's Literary Autobiography of the 1930s

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2021
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Jim Crow Networks

African American Periodical Cultures

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Genealogical Sublime

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Thoreau beyond Borders

New International Essays on America's Most Famous Nature Writer

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Out of Print

Mediating Information in the Novel and the Book

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Forever Struggle

Activism, Identity, and Survival in Boston's Chinatown, 1880–2018

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Fictional Blues

Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Work Better, Live Better

Motivation, Labor, and Management Ideology

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Mass Production of Memory

Travel and Personal Archiving in the Age of the Kodak

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Engaging Diverse Communities

A Guide to Museum Public Relations

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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A Prison in the Woods

Environment and Incarceration in New York's North Country

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Lexington Six

Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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For Might and Right

Cold War Defense Spending and the Remaking of American Democracy

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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A Sound History

Lawrence Gellert, Black Musical Protest, and White Denial

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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On the Record

Music Journalists on Their Lives, Craft, and Careers

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Constructing the Outbreak

Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Shaker Fever

America's Twentieth-Century Fascination with a Communitarian Sect

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Rescued from Oblivion

Historical Cultures in the Early United States

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Museum Diplomacy

Transnational Public History and the U.S. Department of State

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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From the Mountains to the Sea

Protecting Nature in Postwar New Hampshire

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Diseased States

Epidemic Control in Britain and the United States

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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"For the Good of Their Souls"

Performing Christianity in Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Country

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Writing across the Color Line

U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-1920

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Placing Papers

The American Literary Archives Market

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Libraries amid Protest

Books, Organizing, and Global Activism

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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From Environmental Loss to Resistance

Infrastructure and the Struggle for Justice in North America

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Transcendental Heresies

Harvard and the Modern American Practice of Unbelief

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Every Home a Fortress

Cold War Fatherhood and the Family Fallout Shelter

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Brick City Vanguard

Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black Modernity

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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That Place Where You Opened Your Hands

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Stardust Media

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Exporting Jim Crow

Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Cross-Racial Class Protest in Antebellum American Literature

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Memory Eaters

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Senseless Women

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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A Wolf by the Ears

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites

Antebellum Print Culture and the Rise of the Critic

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Collecting the Globe

The Salem East India Marine Society Museum

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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