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.
We Gotta Get Out of This Place
The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
- Copyright year: 2015
Commercializing Childhood
Children's Magazines, Urban Gentility, and the Ideal of the Child Consumer in the United States, 1823-1918
- Copyright year: 2015
The New Bostonians
How Immigrants Have Transformed the Metro Area since the 1960s
- Copyright year: 2015
“The Most Dangerous Communist in the United States”
A Biography of Herbert Aptheker
- Copyright year: 2015
Patient Expectations
How Economics, Religion, and Malpractice Shaped Therapeutics in Early America
- Copyright year: 2015
Audre Lorde’s Transnational Legacies
- Copyright year: 2015
Massachusetts and the Civil War
The Commonwealth and National Disunion
- Copyright year: 2015
What Middletown Read
Print Culture in an American Small City
- Copyright year: 2015
African American Travel Narratives from Abroad
Mobility and Cultural Work in the Age of Jim Crow
- Copyright year: 2015
The Other Jonathan Edwards
Selected Writings on Society, Love, and Justice
- Copyright year: 2015
Forms of Association
Making Publics in Early Modern Europe
- Copyright year: 2015
Dickens and Massachusetts
The Lasting Legacy of the Commonwealth Visits
- Copyright year: 2015
On the Cusp
The Yale College Class of 1960 and a World on the Verge of Change
- Copyright year: 2015
The Sarajevo Olympics
A History of the 1984 Winter Games
- Copyright year: 2015
Storytelling and Science
Rewriting Oppenheimer in the Nuclear Age
- Copyright year: 2015
Making the Desert Modern
Americans, Arabs, and Oil on the Saudi Frontier, 1933–1973
- Copyright year: 2015
Violin Playing Herself in a Mirror
Poems
- Copyright year: 2015
Desert sonorous
Stories
- Copyright year: 2015
Transatlantic Romanticism
British and American Art and Literature, 1790-1860
- Copyright year: 2014
Isaiah Rogers
Architectural Practice in Antebellum America
- Copyright year: 2014
Investment Management in Boston
A History
- Copyright year: 2014
Rebels in Paradise
Sketches of Northampton Abolitionists
- Copyright year: 2014
A Kiss from Thermopylae
Emily Dickinson and Law
- Copyright year: 2014
For Jobs and Freedom
Selected Speeches and Writings of A. Philip Randolph
- Copyright year: 2014
Haunted by Hitler
Liberals, the Left, and the Fight against Fascism in the United States
- Copyright year: 2014
Cape Cod
An Environmental History of a Fragile Ecosystem
- Copyright year: 2014
Happily Sometimes After
Discovering Stories from Twelve Generations of an American Family
- Copyright year: 2014
Lovewell's Fight
War, Death, and Memory in Borderland New England
- Copyright year: 2014
History Repeating Itself
The Republication of Children's Historical Literature and the Christian Right
- Copyright year: 2014
Boxcar Politics
The Hobo in U.S. Culture and Literature, 1869-1956
- Copyright year: 2014
SOS—Calling All Black People
A Black Arts Movement Reader
- Copyright year: 2014
The Alewives' Tale
The Life History and Ecology of River Herring in the Northeast
- Copyright year: 2014
We Ask Only for Even-Handed Justice
Black Voices from Reconstruction, 1865-1877
- Copyright year: 2014
"Good News from New England" by Edward Winslow
A Scholarly Edition
- Copyright year: 2014
From the Dance Hall to Facebook
Teen Girls, Mass Media, and Moral Panic in the United States, 1905-2010
- Copyright year: 2014
Citizenship in Cold War America
The National Security State and the Possibilities of Dissent
- Copyright year: 2014
"History Is Bunk"
Assembling the Past at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village
- Copyright year: 2014
Forever Vietnam
How a Divisive War Changed American Public Memory
- Copyright year: 2014
A People's History of the New Boston
- Copyright year: 2014
Suburban Plots
Men at Home in Nineteenth-Century American Print Culture
- Copyright year: 2014
The Ocean Is a Wilderness
Atlantic Piracy and the Limits of State Authority, 1688-1856
- Copyright year: 2014
A Question of Sex
Feminism, Rhetoric, and Differences That Matter
- Copyright year: 2014
Boston's Cycling Craze, 1880-1900
A Story of Race, Sport, and Society
- Copyright year: 2014
Second Nature
An Environmental History of New England
- Copyright year: 2014
Living with Whales
Documents and Oral Histories of Native New England Whaling History
- Copyright year: 2014
The Child Cases
How America's Religious Exemption Laws Harm Children
- Copyright year: 2014
Beyond the Checkpoint
Visual Practices in America's Global War on Terror
- Copyright year: 2014
A History of Hands
A Novel
- Copyright year: 2014