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.
Walking Away from Nuremberg
Just War and the Doctrine of Command Responsibility
- Copyright year: 2007
Invisible Enemies
The American War on Vietnam, 1975-2000
- Copyright year: 2007
Preserving and Enhancing Communities
A Guide for Citizens, Planners, and Policymakers
- Copyright year: 2007
The Culture and Sport of Skiing
From Antiquity to World War ll
- Copyright year: 2007
Agent of Change
Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
- Copyright year: 2007
The End of Victory Culture
Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation
- Copyright year: 2007
Institutions of Reading
The Social Life of Libraries in the United States
- Copyright year: 2007
America the Middlebrow
Women's Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship between the Wars
- Copyright year: 2007
An American Dream
The Life of an African American Soldier and POW Who Spent Twelve Years in Communist China
- Copyright year: 2007
The Secret Leprosy of Modern Days
Narcotic Addiction and Cultural Crisis in the United States, 1870-1920
- Copyright year: 2007
Romance, Remedies, and Revolution
The Journal of Dr. Elihu Ashley of Deerfield, Massachusetts, 1773-1775
- Copyright year: 2007
What a Book Can Do
The Publication and Reception of "Silent Spring"
- Copyright year: 2007
Stephen Decatur
American Naval Hero, 1779-1820
- Copyright year: 2007
Senda Berenson
The Unlikely Founder of Women's Basketball
- Copyright year: 2007
The Mind's Eye
Image and Memory in Writing about Trauma
- Copyright year: 2007
Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America
- Copyright year: 2007
The Problem of Evil
Slavery, Freedom and the Ambiguities of American Reform
- Copyright year: 2007
Building Victorian Boston
The Architecture of Gridley J.F. Bryant
- Copyright year: 2006
Puerto Rican Poetry
An Anthology from Aboriginal to Contemporary Times
- Copyright year: 2006
More Day to Dawn
Thoreau's Walden for the Twenty-first Century
- Copyright year: 2006
A House Is Not a Home
- Copyright year: 2006
Cemetery of the Murdered Daughters
Feminism, History, and Ingeborg Bachmann
- Copyright year: 2006
A Sense of Self
The Work of Affirmation
- Copyright year: 2006
The Prendergast Letters
Correspondence from Famine-Era Ireland, 1840–1850
- Copyright year: 2006
Sticks and Stones
Living with Uncertain Wars
- Copyright year: 2006
Movie Censorship and American Culture
- Copyright year: 2006
The Humane Metropolis
People and Nature in the 21st-Century City
- Copyright year: 2006
Washington's China
The National Security World, the Cold War, and the Origins of Globalism
- Copyright year: 2006
This Waiting for Love
Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance
- Copyright year: 2006
Huerfano
A Memoir of Life in the Counterculture
- Copyright year: 2006
The Lowell Experiment
Public History in a Postindustrial City
- Copyright year: 2006
The Needle's Eye
Women and Work in the Age of Revolution
- Copyright year: 2006
When the Girls Came Out to Play
The Birth Of American Sportswear
- Copyright year: 2006
In the Company of Books
Literature and Its "Classes" in Nineteenth-Century America
- Copyright year: 2006
Captive Histories
English, French, and Native Narratives of the 1704 Deerfield Raid
- Copyright year: 2006
The Book of the Play
Playwrights, Stationers, and Readers in Early Modern England
- Copyright year: 2006
Artists, Intellectuals, and World War II
The Pontigny Encounters at Mount Holyoke College, 1942-1944
- Copyright year: 2006
Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace
New England Crime Literature and the Origins of American Popular Culture, 1674-1860
- Copyright year: 2006
Festivals of Freedom
Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808-1915
- Copyright year: 2003
Charles Horton Cooley
Imagining Social Reality
- Copyright year: 2006
Tolerable Entertainment
Herman Melville and Professionalism in Antebellum New York
- Copyright year: 2006
One Shaker Life
Isaac Newton Youngs, 1793-1865
- Copyright year: 2006
The Athens of America
Boston, 1825-1845
- Copyright year: 2006