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.
The Persistence of Slavery
An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria
- Copyright year: 2021
Templates for Authorship
American Women's Literary Autobiography of the 1930s
- Copyright year: 2021
Jim Crow Networks
African American Periodical Cultures
- Copyright year: 2021
The Genealogical Sublime
- Copyright year: 2020
Thoreau beyond Borders
New International Essays on America's Most Famous Nature Writer
- Copyright year: 2020
Out of Print
Mediating Information in the Novel and the Book
- Copyright year: 2020
Forever Struggle
Activism, Identity, and Survival in Boston's Chinatown, 1880–2018
- Copyright year: 2020
Fictional Blues
Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White
- Copyright year: 2020
Work Better, Live Better
Motivation, Labor, and Management Ideology
- Copyright year: 2020
The Mass Production of Memory
Travel and Personal Archiving in the Age of the Kodak
- Copyright year: 2020