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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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Famous Long Ago

My Life and Hard Times with Liberation News Service

By Raymond Mungo; Introduction by John McMillian; Epilogue by Raymond Mungo

University of Massachusetts Press

My Life and Hard Times with Liberation News Service

An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement

The Making of Portland, Maine

The Woman's Building Library at the World's Columbian Exposition

Rethinking Politics in Cold War America

Life, Love, and Literature

Indiana's Lincoln Inquiry and the Quest to Reclaim a President's Past

The Visual and Popular Cultures of the Spanish-American War of 1898

Jews and Puritans in Early America

Collecting American Folk Art, 1876-1976

Robert Kennedy and the Politics of Poverty

African Americans and the American Art Museum

Veterans, Memorials, and the Politics of Healing

The Oneida Nation from the Revolution through the Era of Removal

The Poetry and Prose of Robert Francis

Imagining the East from the Colonial Era through the Twentieth Century

American Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy, 1940-1960

The Politics of Representation in Birdwatching Field Guides

Tracking an Evolving American Geography

How Politicians Cracked Down on Scientists as the Earth Heated Up

Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851-1911

Constructing the Executable Subject

Sexual Health Texts in Early Twentieth-Century America

Masculinity, Religion, and Colonialism in Early New England

And Other Stories

Journalistic Traditions and Transnational Influences

Poems

Cooking by the Book in New England

War and Peace in the Era of Mass Communication

On Remembering and Forgetting in Late Modern Culture

Shaker Women and Equality of the Sexes

Critical Essays

Practicing Democracy in Rural New England

Elizabeth I and the Politics of Ceremony

Homelessness and Urban Development in Cleveland, Ohio

Appropriations of Emerson, 1880-1950

Monarch of Perception

Stories

A Renaissance Man in the Gilded Age

Taste, Culture, and the Modern Library

The People, the President, and the Performance of Political Standup Comedy in America

Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance

Essays on Literature, Race, and National Identity in Antillean America

The Pursuit of Normality in Postwar America

One Town's Tragic Response to the Great Epidemic of 1918