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 Prendergast Letters
Correspondence from Famine-Era Ireland, 1840–1850
- Copyright year: 2006
Sticks and Stones
Living with Uncertain Wars
- Copyright year: 2006
Movie Censorship and American Culture
- Copyright year: 2006
The Humane Metropolis
People and Nature in the 21st-Century City
- Copyright year: 2006
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