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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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An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans

Revised and Updated Edition

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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When Will the Joy Come?

Black Women in the Ivory Tower

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Handwriting in Early America

A Media History

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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How the News Feels

The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists

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Dropping In

What Skateboarders Can Teach Us about Learning, Schooling, and Youth Development

University of Massachusetts Press
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"This World Is Not My Home"

A Critical Biography of African American Writer Charles Wright

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The Songs of Betty Baach

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The Horrible Peace

British Veterans and the End of the Napoleonic Wars

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  • Copyright year: 2023
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Idea City

How to Make Boston More Livable, Equitable, and Resilient

Edited by David Gamble
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  • Copyright year: 2023
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Teaching the History of the Book

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  • Copyright year: 2023
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Fighting Over There

U.S. War Making and Contemporary Refugee Literature

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  • Copyright year: 2023
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A Voice in Their Own Destiny

Reagan, Thatcher, and Public Diplomacy in the Nuclear 1980s

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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The New Civil Rights Movement Reader

Resistance, Resilience, and Justice

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  • Copyright year: 2023
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Once, This Forest Belonged to a Storm

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But, She Is Also Jane

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American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory

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  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Wandering Womb

Essays in Search of Home

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  • Copyright year: 2023
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the book of webs

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Rape, Agency, and Carceral Solutions

From Criminal Justice to Social Justice

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  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Transatlantic Materials of American Literature

Publishing US Writing in Britain, 1830–1860

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  • Copyright year: 2023
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Staged News

The Federal Theatre Project’s Living Newspapers in New York

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  • Copyright year: 2023
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Race in the Crucible of War

African American Servicemen and the War in Vietnam

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  • Copyright year: 2023
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Bob Dylan in the Attic

The Artist as Historian

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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"Fame Is Not Just for the Fellas"

Female Renown and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series

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  • Copyright year: 2022
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The Insider

How the Kiplinger Newsletter Bridged Washington and Wall Street

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Rewriting America

New Essays on the Federal Writers' Project

Edited by Sara Rutkowski
University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Making Maine

Statehood and the War of 1812

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Organizing Women

Home, Work, and the Institutional Infrastructure of Print in Twentieth-Century America

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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The Spirit of Colonial Williamsburg

Ghosts and Interpreting the Recreated Past

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  • Copyright year: 2022
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Save Venice Inc.

American Philanthropy and Art Conservation in Italy, 1966-2021

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Public in Name Only

The 1939 Alexandria Library Sit-In Demonstration

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  • Copyright year: 2022
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Law and Illiberalism

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Service Denied

Marginalized Veterans in Modern American History

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Our Kind of Historian

The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr.

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Health and Efficiency

Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Haywire

Discord in Maine's Logging Woods and the Unraveling of an Industry

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  • Copyright year: 2022
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Certain Concealments

Poe, Hawthorne, and Early Nineteenth-Century Abortion

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Exhibiting Evangelicalism

Commemoration and Religion’s Presence of the Past

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  • Copyright year: 2022
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Here and Everywhere Else

Small-Town Maine and the World

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  • Copyright year: 2022
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Exactitude

On Precision and Play in Contemporary Architecture

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  • Copyright year: 2022
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Wild Intelligence

Poets' Libraries and the Politics of Knowledge in Postwar America

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  • Copyright year: 2022
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The California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Politics of Massachusetts Exceptionalism

Reputation Meets Reality

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Landscape with Bloodfeud

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Genre Worlds

Popular Fiction and Twenty-First-Century Book Culture

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  • Copyright year: 2022
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Dogged

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Safe Places

Stories

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  • Copyright year: 2022
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Design with Nature on Cape Cod and the Islands

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  • Copyright year: 2022
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