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.
On the Altar of Freedom
A Black Soldier’s Civil War Letters from the Front
- Copyright year: 1999
Making the News
Modernity and the Mass Press in Nineteenth-Century France
- Copyright year: 1999
Celebrating the Fourth
Independence Day and the Rites of Nationalism in the Early Republic
- Copyright year: 1999
The Whole Truth?
A Case of Murder on the Appalachian Trail
- Copyright year: 1999
The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora in America
- Copyright year: 1999
Sacred Places
American Tourist Attractions in the Nineteenth Century
- Copyright year: 1999
The Persistence of Poetry
Bicentennial Essays on Keats
- Copyright year: 1998
In Search of New England's Native Past
Selected Essays by Gordon M. Day
- Copyright year: 1998
The Book of American Windsor Furniture
Styles and Technologies
- Copyright year: 1998
Dr. America
The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927-1961
- Copyright year: 1998