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.
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
Early American Gardens
"For Meate or Medicine"
- Copyright year: 1986
American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century
"For Use or for Delight"
- Copyright year: 1986
Biography as High Adventure
Life-Writers Speak on Their Art
- Copyright year: 1986
In Search of the Person
Philosophical Explorations in Cognitive Science
- Copyright year: 1986
Postmortem
New Evidence in the Case of Sacco and Vanzetti
- Copyright year: 1985