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.
Ashes of the Mind
War and Memory in Northern Literature, 1865-1900
- Copyright year: 2009
Millennial Praises
A Shaker Hymnal
- Copyright year: 2009
The Craftsman and the Critic
Defining Usefulness and Beauty in Arts and Crafts-Era Boston
- Copyright year: 2009
Hope and Glory
Essays on the Legacy of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment
- Copyright year: 2009
Tracing Paradise
Two Years in Harmony with John Milton
- Copyright year: 2009
Cultivating a Past
Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts
- Copyright year: 2009
Public Poet, Private Man
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200
- Copyright year: 2009
Master Mechanics and Wicked Wizards
Images of the American Scientist as Hero and Villain from Colonial Times to the Present
- Copyright year: 2009
"A Mirror for Magistrates" and the Politics of the English Reformation
- Copyright year: 2009
The Myth of the Addicted Army
Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs
- Copyright year: 2009
Barney Frank
The Story of America's Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman
- Copyright year: 2009
Culture Club
The Curious History of the Boston Athenaeum
- Copyright year: 2009
Margaret
A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom
- Copyright year: 2009
Beyond Vietnam
The Politics of Protest in Massachusetts, 1974-1990
- Copyright year: 2009
Out of the Attic
Inventing Antiques in Twentieth-Century New England
- Copyright year: 2009
Bridging Three Worlds
Hungarian-Jewish Americans, 1848-1914
- Copyright year: 2009
Committed to Memory
Cultural Mediations of the Holocaust
- Copyright year: 2009
Strained Sisterhood
Gender and Class in the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society
- Copyright year: 2009
The Colored Cartoon
Black Presentation in American Animated Short Films, 1907-1954
- Copyright year: 2007
The Fugitive’s Gibraltar
Escaping Slaves and Abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts
- Copyright year: 2009
The Greatest Menace
Organized Crime in Cold War America
- Copyright year: 2009
Traditions and Reminiscences of Concord, Massachusetts, 1779-1878
- Copyright year: 2009
When This Cruel War Is Over
The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster
- Copyright year: 2009
Black Students in the Ivory Tower
African American Student Activism at the University of Pennsylvania, 1967-1990
- Copyright year: 2002
In the Master's Eye
Representations of Women, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Antebellum Southern Literature
- Copyright year: 2009
Mobility and Migration
East Anglian Founders of New England, 1629-1640
- Copyright year: 2009
The Past in Ruins
Tradition and the Critique of Modernity
- Copyright year: 2009
A Matter of Life and Death
Hunting in Contemporary Vermont
- Copyright year: 2009