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.
In the Company of Books
Literature and Its "Classes" in Nineteenth-Century America
- Copyright year: 2006
Captive Histories
English, French, and Native Narratives of the 1704 Deerfield Raid
- Copyright year: 2006
The Book of the Play
Playwrights, Stationers, and Readers in Early Modern England
- Copyright year: 2006
Artists, Intellectuals, and World War II
The Pontigny Encounters at Mount Holyoke College, 1942-1944
- Copyright year: 2006
Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace
New England Crime Literature and the Origins of American Popular Culture, 1674-1860
- Copyright year: 2006
Festivals of Freedom
Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808-1915
- Copyright year: 2003
Charles Horton Cooley
Imagining Social Reality
- Copyright year: 2006
Tolerable Entertainment
Herman Melville and Professionalism in Antebellum New York
- Copyright year: 2006