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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.

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No Man Is An Island

Community and Commemoration on Norway's Utøya

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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Original Copy

Ekphrasis, Gender, and the National Imagination in Nineteenth Century American Literature

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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Branching Out

The Public History of Trees

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  • Copyright year: 2025
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Capturing COVID

Media and the Pandemic in the Digital Era

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  • Copyright year: 2025
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Mothering in the Time of Coronavirus

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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Writing Themselves into the Movement

Child Authors of the Black Arts Movement

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Racializing Objectivity

How the White Southern Press Weaponized Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow

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  • Copyright year: 2024
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Making World Literature

Actors, Institutions, and Networks in the United States since 1890

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  • Copyright year: 2024
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Tasting and Testing Books

Good Housekeeping, Popular Modernism, and Middlebrow Reading

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  • Copyright year: 2024
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Inventing the Boston Game

Football, Soccer, and the Origins of a National Myth

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  • Copyright year: 2024
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Closely and Consciously

Reading and the U.S. Women's Liberation Movement

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  • Copyright year: 2024
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Malcolm Before X

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  • Copyright year: 2024
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Captain Paul Cuffe, Yeoman

A Biography

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  • Copyright year: 2024
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More Than Blue, More Than Yankee

Complexity and Change in New England Politics

Edited by Amy Fried and Erin O'Brien
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  • Copyright year: 2024
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Unfracked

The Struggle to Ban Fracking in New York

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  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Precious Birthright

Black Leaders and the Fight to Vote in Antebellum Rhode Island

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  • Copyright year: 2024
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Unsettling Thoreau

Native Americans, Settler Colonialism, and the Power of Place

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  • Copyright year: 2024
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Our Science, Ourselves

How Gender, Race and Social Movements Shaped the Study of Science

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  • Copyright year: 2024
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Boston Mass-Mediated

Urban Space and Culture in the Digital Age

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  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Rise of Newport’s Catholics

From Colonial Outcasts to Gilded Age Leaders

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  • Copyright year: 2024
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Art during Wartime

Painting Everyday Life in the Civil War North

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  • Copyright year: 2024
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Everyday Reading

Middlebrow Magazines and Book Publishing in Post-Independence India

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  • Copyright year: 2024
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"From Boys to Men"

The Boy Problem and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series

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  • Copyright year: 2024
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Multiplicity

On Constraint and Agency in Contemporary Architecture

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  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Afterlife of Sympathy

Reading American Literary Realism in the Wake of "Uncle Tom’s Cabin"

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  • Copyright year: 2024
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Unveiling the Color Line

W. E. B. Du Bois on the Problem of Whiteness

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  • Copyright year: 2024
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Food Margins

Lessons from an Unlikely Grocer

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  • Copyright year: 2024
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Climate Justice and Public Health

Realities, Responses, and Reimaginings for a Better Future

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  • Copyright year: 2024
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Testing Education

A Teacher's Memoir

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Thanks for Letting Us Know You Are Alive

Poems

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Chamber after Chamber

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Gospel According to This Moment

The Spiritual Message of Henry David Thoreau

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Long Swim

Stories

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Green World

A Tragicomic Memoir of Love & Shakespeare

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Fine Dreams

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Ordinary Lives

Recovering Deaf Social History through the American Census

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Prisoners after War

Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Networked Poetics

The Digital Turn in Southern African Poetry

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Living with Agent Orange

Conversations in Postwar Viet Nam

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Education of Things

Mechanical Literacy in British Children's Literature, 1762–1860

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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