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.
No Man Is An Island
Community and Commemoration on Norway's Utøya
- Copyright year: 2025
Original Copy
Ekphrasis, Gender, and the National Imagination in Nineteenth Century American Literature
- Copyright year: 2025
Branching Out
The Public History of Trees
- Copyright year: 2025
Mothering in the Time of Coronavirus
- Copyright year: 2025
Capturing COVID
Media and the Pandemic in the Digital Era
- Copyright year: 2025
Writing Themselves into the Movement
Child Authors of the Black Arts Era
- Copyright year: 2024
Making World Literature
Actors, Institutions, and Networks in the United States since 1890
- Copyright year: 2024
Racializing Objectivity
How the White Southern Press Weaponized Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow
- Copyright year: 2024
Tasting and Testing Books
Good Housekeeping, Popular Modernism, and Middlebrow Reading
- Copyright year: 2024
Inventing the Boston Game
Football, Soccer, and the Origins of a National Myth
- Copyright year: 2024
Closely and Consciously
Reading and the U.S. Women's Liberation Movement
- Copyright year: 2024
Captain Paul Cuffe, Yeoman
A Biography
- Copyright year: 2024
More Than Blue, More Than Yankee
Complexity and Change in New England Politics
- Copyright year: 2024
Unfracked
The Struggle to Ban Fracking in New York
- Copyright year: 2024
The Precious Birthright
Black Leaders and the Fight to Vote in Antebellum Rhode Island
- Copyright year: 2024
Our Science, Ourselves
How Gender, Race, and Social Movements Shaped the Study of Science
- Copyright year: 2024
Unsettling Thoreau
Native Americans, Settler Colonialism, and the Power of Place
- Copyright year: 2024
Boston Mass-Mediated
Urban Space and Culture in the Digital Age
- Copyright year: 2024
The Rise of Newport’s Catholics
From Colonial Outcasts to Gilded Age Leaders
- Copyright year: 2024
Art during Wartime
Painting Everyday Life in the Civil War North
- Copyright year: 2024
Everyday Reading
Middlebrow Magazines and Book Publishing in Post-Independence India
- Copyright year: 2024
"From Boys to Men"
The Boy Problem and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series
- Copyright year: 2024
Multiplicity
On Constraint and Agency in Contemporary Architecture
- Copyright year: 2024
The Afterlife of Sympathy
Reading American Literary Realism in the Wake of "Uncle Tom’s Cabin"
- Copyright year: 2024
Climate Justice and Public Health
Realities, Responses, and Reimaginings for a Better Future
- Copyright year: 2024
Unveiling the Color Line
W. E. B. Du Bois on the Problem of Whiteness
- Copyright year: 2024
Food Margins
Lessons from an Unlikely Grocer
- Copyright year: 2024
Testing Education
A Teacher's Memoir
- Copyright year: 2024
Thanks for Letting Us Know You Are Alive
Poems
- Copyright year: 2024
The Gospel According to This Moment
The Spiritual Message of Henry David Thoreau
- Copyright year: 2024
Green World
A Tragicomic Memoir of Love & Shakespeare
- Copyright year: 2024
Ordinary Lives
Recovering Deaf Social History through the American Census
- Copyright year: 2024
Prisoners after War
Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration
- Copyright year: 2024
Networked Poetics
The Digital Turn in Southern African Poetry
- Copyright year: 2024
Living with Agent Orange
Conversations in Postwar Viet Nam
- Copyright year: 2024
The Education of Things
Mechanical Literacy in British Children's Literature, 1762–1860
- Copyright year: 2023
Writing Against Reform
Aesthetic Realism in the Progressive Era
- Copyright year: 2024
Making the Radical University
Identity and Politics on the American College Campus, 1966–1991
- Copyright year: 2024
From Union Halls to the Suburbs
Americans for Democratic Action and the Transformation of Postwar Liberalism
- Copyright year: 2023
Democratic Spaces
Land Preservation in New England, 1850–2010
- Copyright year: 2023
Blood and Ink
The Barbary Archive in Early American Literary History
- Copyright year: 2023
The Moiseyev Dance Company Tours America
"Wholesome" Comfort during a Cold War
- Copyright year: 2023
Composting Utopia
Experimental Infrastructures for Organics Recycling in New York City
- Copyright year: 2023
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino
Lessons for Governing Post-Industrial Cities
- Copyright year: 2023
Book Anatomy
Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History
- Copyright year: 2023
In Pursuit of Justice
The Life of John Albion Andrew
- Copyright year: 2023