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.
Containing Addiction
The Federal Bureau of Narcotics and the Origins of America's Global Drug War
United Tastes
The Making of the First American Cookbook
The World of Credit in Colonial Massachusetts
James Richards and His Daybook, 1692-1711
- Copyright year: 2017
Transcendentalism and the Cultivation of the Soul
- Copyright year: 2017
Freak Weather
stories
- Copyright year: 2017
Levi Strauss
The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World
- Copyright year: 2017
Taking Books to the World
American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War
Making a Monster
Jesse Pomeroy, the Boy Murderer of 1870s Boston
- Copyright year: 2017
Ragged Revolutionaries
The Lumpenproletariat and African American Marxism in Depression-Era Literature
What Remains
Searching for the Memory and Lost Grave of John Paul Jones
Mediating Morality
The Politics of Teen Pregnancy in the Post-Welfare Era
The Fires of New England
A Story of Protest and Rebellion in Antebellum America
All Eyes Are Upon Us
Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn
- Copyright year: 2017
Seaweeds of the Northwest Atlantic
- Copyright year: 2017
My Brother's Keeper
George McGovern and Progressive Christianity
A Time Far Past
A Novel of Viet Nam
- Copyright year: 1997