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.
The Secret Leprosy of Modern Days
Narcotic Addiction and Cultural Crisis in the United States, 1870-1920
- Copyright year: 2007
Romance, Remedies, and Revolution
The Journal of Dr. Elihu Ashley of Deerfield, Massachusetts, 1773-1775
- Copyright year: 2007
What a Book Can Do
The Publication and Reception of "Silent Spring"
- Copyright year: 2007
Stephen Decatur
American Naval Hero, 1779-1820
- Copyright year: 2007
Senda Berenson
The Unlikely Founder of Women's Basketball
- Copyright year: 2007
The Mind's Eye
Image and Memory in Writing about Trauma
- Copyright year: 2007
Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America
- Copyright year: 2007
The Problem of Evil
Slavery, Freedom and the Ambiguities of American Reform
- Copyright year: 2007
Building Victorian Boston
The Architecture of Gridley J.F. Bryant
- Copyright year: 2006