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.
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
An Environmental History of the Southwest Borderlands
The Aquatic Frontier
Oysters and Aquaculture in the Progressive Era
- Copyright year: 2019
Rediscovering the Maine Woods
Thoreau's Legacy in an Unsettled Land
- Copyright year: 2019
Taking Possession
The Politics of Memory in a St. Louis Town House
Strange Attractors
Lives Changed by Chance
Made Under Pressure
Literary Translation in the Soviet Union, 1960-1991
Soldiers of the Pen
The Writers' War Board in World War II
- Copyright year: 2019
Books for Idle Hours
Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading
- Copyright year: 2019
Bad News Travels Fast
The Telegraph, Libel, and Press Freedom in the Progressive Era
- Copyright year: 2019
The Spy Who Loved Us
The Vietnam War and Pham Xuan An's Dangerous Game
- Copyright year: 2019
The Slave Master of Trinidad
William Hardin Burnley and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
- Copyright year: 2018
Battles of the North Country
Wilderness Politics and Recreational Development in the Adirondack State Park, 1920-1980
Irish Writers in the Irish American Press, 1882-1964
- Copyright year: 2018