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.
A Time Far Past
A Novel of Viet Nam
- Copyright year: 1997
My Brother's Keeper
George McGovern and Progressive Christianity
Seaweeds of the Northwest Atlantic
- Copyright year: 2017
All Eyes Are Upon Us
Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn
- Copyright year: 2017
The Fires of New England
A Story of Protest and Rebellion in Antebellum America
Mediating Morality
The Politics of Teen Pregnancy in the Post-Welfare Era
What Remains
Searching for the Memory and Lost Grave of John Paul Jones
Ragged Revolutionaries
The Lumpenproletariat and African American Marxism in Depression-Era Literature
Making a Monster
Jesse Pomeroy, the Boy Murderer of 1870s Boston
- Copyright year: 2017
Taking Books to the World
American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War
Levi Strauss
The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World
- Copyright year: 2017
Freak Weather
stories
- Copyright year: 2017
Transcendentalism and the Cultivation of the Soul
- Copyright year: 2017
The World of Credit in Colonial Massachusetts
James Richards and His Daybook, 1692-1711
- Copyright year: 2017
United Tastes
The Making of the First American Cookbook
Containing Addiction
The Federal Bureau of Narcotics and the Origins of America's Global Drug War
Open Spaces, Open Rebellions
The War over America’s Public Lands
Science for the People
Documents from America's Movement of Radical Scientists
My Old Faithful
Stories
- Copyright year: 2018
People before Highways
Boston Activists, Urban Planners, and a New Movement for City Making
The Souls of Black Folk
Essays and Sketches
Covering America
A Narrative History of a Nation's Journalism
- Copyright year: 2017
Between City and Country
Brookline, Massachusetts, and the Origins of Suburbia
- Copyright year: 2018
Tribal Strengths and Native Education
Voices from the Reservation Classroom
- Copyright year: 2018
A Shadow on Our Hearts
Soldier-Poetry, Morality, and the American War in Vietnam
- Copyright year: 2017
The Oven
An Anti-Lecture
- Copyright year: 2018
Optimism at All Costs
Black Attitudes, Activism, and Advancement in Obama's America
The Stages of Memory
Reflections on Memorial Art, Loss, and the Spaces Between
- Copyright year: 2018
Veteran Americans
Literature and Citizenship from Revolution to Reconstruction
- Copyright year: 2018
Lydia Sigourney
Critical Essays and Cultural Views
Above the American Renaissance
David S. Reynolds and the Spiritual Imagination in American Literary Studies
- Copyright year: 2018
Clearer Than Truth
The Polygraph and the American Cold War
- Copyright year: 2018
The Honky Tonk on the Left
Progressive Thought in Country Music
- Copyright year: 2018
Modern Bonds
Redefining Community in Early Twentieth-Century St. Paul
Clio's Foot Soldiers
Twentieth-Century U.S. Social Movements and Collective Memory
- Copyright year: 2018
The Small Shall Be Strong
A History of Lake Tahoe's Washoe Indians
- Copyright year: 2018
Authenticity Guaranteed
Masculinity and the Rhetoric of Anti-Consumerism in American Culture
- Copyright year: 2018
The Last Great Colonial Lawyer
The Life and Legacy of Jeremiah Gridley
- Copyright year: 2018
Exhibiting Scotland
Objects, Identity, and the National Museum
- Copyright year: 2018