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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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Cross-Racial Class Protest in Antebellum American Literature

By Timothy Helwig

University of Massachusetts Press

Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond

Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black Modernity

Cold War Fatherhood and the Family Fallout Shelter

Harvard and the Modern American Practice of Unbelief

Infrastructure and the Struggle for Justice in North America

Books, Organizing, and Global Activism

The American Literary Archives Market

U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-1920

Performing Christianity in Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Country

Epidemic Control in Britain and the United States

Protecting Nature in Postwar New Hampshire

Transnational Public History and the U.S. Department of State

Historical Cultures in the Early United States

America's Twentieth-Century Fascination with a Communitarian Sect

Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory

Music Journalists on Their Lives, Craft, and Careers

Lawrence Gellert, Black Musical Protest, and White Denial

Cold War Defense Spending and the Remaking of American Democracy

Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America

Environment and Incarceration in New York's North Country

A Guide to Museum Public Relations

Travel and Personal Archiving in the Age of the Kodak

Motivation, Labor, and Management Ideology

Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White

Activism, Identity, and Survival in Boston's Chinatown, 1880–2018

Mediating Information in the Novel and the Book

New International Essays on America's Most Famous Nature Writer

African American Periodical Cultures

American Women's Literary Autobiography of the 1930s

An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria

Gender, Spycraft, and Anti-Stalinism in the Early Cold War

Alcohol, Murder, and Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century America

Essays on Culture, Race, & Writing

Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad

A Life Reclaimed

A Life Reclaimed

Roots and Revival in New England Folk Music

Marilyn B. Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism

Penobscot Transformer Tales, Volume 1

Religious Affections and Christian Contact in Early North America

Fishing and New England's Rural Economy