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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.

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Ekphrasis, Gender, and the National Imagination in Nineteenth Century American Literature

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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Branching Out

The Public History of Trees

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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Capturing COVID

Media and the Pandemic in the Digital Era

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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Mothering in the Time of Coronavirus

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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Writing Themselves into the Movement

Child Authors of the Black Arts Movement

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Racializing Objectivity

How the White Southern Press Weaponized Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Making World Literature

Actors, Institutions, and Networks in the United States since 1890

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Tasting and Testing Books

Good Housekeeping, Popular Modernism, and Middlebrow Reading

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Inventing the Boston Game

Football, Soccer, and the Origins of a National Myth

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Closely and Consciously

Reading and the U.S. Women's Liberation Movement

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Malcolm Before X

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Captain Paul Cuffe, Yeoman

A Biography

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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