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.
Perfectly Average
The Pursuit of Normality in Postwar America
- Copyright year: 2010
Influenza and Inequality
One Town's Tragic Response to the Great Epidemic of 1918
- Copyright year: 2010
Harriet Hosmer
A Cultural Biography
- Copyright year: 2010
Measuring America
How Economic Growth Came to Define American Greatness in the Late Twentieth Century
- Copyright year: 2010
Forever Doo-Wop
Race, Nostalgia, and Vocal Harmony
- Copyright year: 2010
One Nation, One Blood
Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820-1870
- Copyright year: 2009
Nine Choices
Johnny Cash and American Culture
- Copyright year: 2010
Boston
Voices and Visions
- Copyright year: 2010
Knocking on Heaven’s Door
Six Minor Leaguers in Search of the Baseball Dream
- Copyright year: 2010
Companionship in Grief
Love and Loss in the Memoirs of C. S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, and Calvin Trillin
- Copyright year: 2010
Mapping Norwood
An Irish-American Memoir
- Copyright year: 2010
Translation, Resistance, Activism
- Copyright year: 2010