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.
"A Bold and Hardy Race of Men"
The Lives and Literature of American Whalemen
- Copyright year: 2013
Negotiating Culture
Heritage, Ownership, and Intellectual Property
- Copyright year: 2013
A Living Exhibition
The Smithsonian and the Transformation of the Universal Museum
- Copyright year: 2013
The Pro-War Movement
Domestic Support for the Vietnam War and the Making of Modern American Conservatism
- Copyright year: 2013
The Wages of History
Emotional Labor on Public History's Front Lines
- Copyright year: 2013
Lessons from Sarajevo
A War Stories Primer
- Copyright year: 2013
The Wired City
Reimagining Journalism and Civic Life in the Post-Newspaper Age
- Copyright year: 2013
Reimagining "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Family, Community, and the Possibility of Equal Justice under Law
- Copyright year: 2013
Street Fight
The Politics of Mobility in San Francisco
- Copyright year: 2013
Lies About My Family
A Memoir
- Copyright year: 2013
Writing the Record
The Village Voice and the Birth of Rock Criticism
- Copyright year: 2013
Some Kinds of Love
Stories
- Copyright year: 2013
Creating a World on Paper
Harry Fenn's Career in Art
- Copyright year: 2013
Alice Morse Earle and the Domestic History of Early America
- Copyright year: 2013
Domestic Frontiers
Gender, Reform, and American Interventions in the Ottoman Balkans and the Near East
- Copyright year: 2013
The World of W.E.B. Du Bois
A Quotation Sourcebook
- Copyright year: 2013
Tragic No More
Mixed-Race Women and the Nexus of Sex and Celebrity
- Copyright year: 2012
Constituting Old Age in Early Modern English Literature, from Queen Elizabeth to King Lear
- Copyright year: 2012
One Colonial Woman's World
The Life and Writings of Mehetabel Chandler Coit
- Copyright year: 2012
Buying the Farm
Peace and War on a Sixties Commune
- Copyright year: 2012
To Fight Aloud Is Very Brave
American Poetry and the Civil War
- Copyright year: 2012
The Mistakes of Yesterday, the Hopes of Tomorrow
The Story of the Prisonaires
- Copyright year: 2012
Pressing the Fight
Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War
- Copyright year: 2012
Jonathan Edwards and the Gospel of Love
- Copyright year: 2012
Agent Orange
History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty
- Copyright year: 2012
The Insistent Call
Rhetorical Moments in Black Anticolonialism, 1929-1937
- Copyright year: 2012
Ecopoetics
The Language of Nature, the Nature of Language
- Copyright year: 2012
Remembering the Forgotten War
The Enduring Legacies of the U.S.-Mexican War
- Copyright year: 2012
Missionaries in Hawai'i
The Lives of Peter and Fanny Gulick, 1797-1883
- Copyright year: 2012
Divided We Stand
Watertown, Massachusetts, 1630-1680
- Copyright year: 2012
The Reverend Jacob Bailey, Maine Loyalist
For God, King, Country, and for Self
- Copyright year: 2012
From Codex to Hypertext
Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century
- Copyright year: 2012
Technology, Pessimism, and Postmodernism
- Copyright year: 1995
The Manliest Man
Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-Century American Reform
- Copyright year: 2012
Cultural Semantics
Keywords of Our Time
- Copyright year: 1998
The Orwell Mystique
A Study in Male Ideology
- Copyright year: 1984
Burnt Cork
Traditions and Legacies of Blackface Minstrelsy
- Copyright year: 2012
"Not Altogether Human"
Pantheism and the Dark Nature of the American Renaissance
- Copyright year: 2012
Sex in Middlesex
Popular Mores in a Massachusetts County, 1649-1699
- Copyright year: 1989
Museums, Monuments, and National Parks
Toward a New Genealogy of Public History
- Copyright year: 2012
The Girls and Boys of Belchertown
A Social History of the Belchertown State School for the Feeble-Minded
- Copyright year: 2012
Modernizing Repression
Police Training and Nation-Building in the American Century
- Copyright year: 2012
Born in the U.S.A.
Birth, Commemoration, and American Public Memory
- Copyright year: 2012
Reading in Time
Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century
- Copyright year: 2012
Bounce
Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
- Copyright year: 2012
A Call to Conscience
The Anti-Contra War Campaign
- Copyright year: 2012
The Agriculture Hall of Fame
Stories
- Copyright year: 2012
Meetinghouses of Early New England
- Copyright year: 2012