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.
Creating New England, Defending the Northeast
Contested Algonquian and English Spatial Worlds, 1500–1700
- Copyright year: 2026
Please Touch
A History of the First Four Children's Museums in the United States (1899–1965)
- Copyright year: 2026
New England Metropolis
Boston and the Industrialization of New England, 1807–1850
- Copyright year: 2026
The Assault on American Labor Law
Unions Before the Supreme Court, 1965–2025
- Copyright year: 2026
Imagining Health
Medicine, Social Protest, and Modern American Literature
- Copyright year: 2026
Remembering the Cajun Past
Memory, Race, and the Politics of Public History in Louisiana
- Copyright year: 2025
Defending a Borderland
Canadian and American Environmental Activism in the St. Lawrence Valley
- Copyright year: 2025
Restoring America
Historic Preservation and the New Deal
- Copyright year: 2025
Every Revolution Was First a Thought
The Civil War and Transcendentalism in Transatlantic Context
- Copyright year: 2025
Emerson and the Defense of Equality
- Copyright year: 2025
Not Just a Housewife
Women Strike for Peace and the Cold War Women's Peace Movement
- Copyright year: 2025
A Born Writer
Juanita Harrison and Her Beautiful World
- Copyright year: 2025