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.
Black Yankees
The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England
- Copyright year: 1988
The Politics of Fear
Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate
- Copyright year: 1987
American Gardens of the Nineteenth Century
"For Comfort and Affluence"
- Copyright year: 1987
Ups and Downs of Life in the Indies
- Copyright year: 1987
The Black Cloth
A Collection of African Folktales
- Copyright year: 1987
Duties, Pleasures, and Conflicts
Essays in Struggle
- Copyright year: 1987
Field Guide to Coastal Wetland Plants of the Northeastern United States
- Copyright year: 1987
The New England Fishing Economy
Jobs, Income, and Kinship
- Copyright year: 1987
Gifts of Power
The Writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress
- Copyright year: 1987
Humanist Poetics
Thought, Rhetoric, and Fiction in Sixteenth-Century England
- Copyright year: 1986
Dickinson
Strategies of Limitation
- Copyright year: 1986