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Founded in 1963, the University of Massachusetts Press is the book-publishing arm of the University of Massachusetts. We think of book publishing as a collaborative venture—a partnership between author and Press staff— and we work hard to see that our authors are happy with every phase of the process. The Press imprint is overseen by a faculty committee, whose members represent a broad spectrum of

University departments. New titles are approved by the committee after a rigorous process of peer review. The committee bases each of its decisions on the recommendations of the Press director and editors and on the written reports of at least two scholars in the field. Since its inception, the Press has sold more than 2,000,000 volumes. Today it has over 950 titles in print. Eight employees, along with student assistants and outside sales representatives, produce and distribute approximately forty new titles annually.

07/09/2025

“More than a marketing strategy or an escapist indulgence, though, summer reading today remains a space in which American culture is actively claimed and constantly negotiated.” Read more about how summer reading became a cultural phenomenon in Books for Idle Hours available at https://ow.ly/Wq1850VwOtk

07/04/2025

“Name nearly any of today’s summer reading practices—indulging in escapist beach-blanket reading, leaving a paperback potboiler behind at the hotel or cottage for the next visitor to read, vowing to tackle that weighty literary classic that has been on your bookshelf for years—and you can find these practices taking shape in the nineteenth century. . ." Read more about the history of summer reading in Books for Idle Hours available at https://www.umasspress.com/9781625343833/books-for-idle-hours/

07/03/2025

📚 Mark your calendars for an evening of unforgettable storytelling! 📚

We’re excited to share that Lindsey Steffes, author of Gichigami, and Tracy Youngblom, author of Because We Must, will be reading and discussing their work at Magers & Quinn Booksellers on Tuesday, July 9 at 7 PM.

🌊 Gichigami dives into the haunting beauty of Lake Superior and the complicated ties of family and belonging.
✍️ Because We Must is a moving memoir about grief, perseverance, and the choices that shape us.

We hope you’ll join these two incredible Minnesota authors for an evening of conversation and community.

📅 Tuesday, July 9 | 7:00 PM
📍 Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis
🎟️ Free & open to the public

07/01/2025

Happy July! Here are our new releases this month:

Emerson's Daughters by Kate Culkin, a biography of a sisterhood that adds to the growing body of work on women’s contribution to Transcendentalism; Boston and the Making of a Global City by James C. O'Connell; Hill Farms by Dona Brown, a focus on the small town of Jamaica, Vermont which reveals a more complex economic and environmental narrative; and Transcendent Woman by David C. Robinson, a charting of Margaret Fuller’s development and achievement as an original thinker and fearless advocate of democracy!

You can use our code UMASS20 on our website umasspress.com for 20% off!

06/28/2025

We at the UMass Press wish you a happy International LGBTQ+ Pride Day!

On June 28th, 1969, the Stonewall Uprising began in New York City, after police raided the Stonewall Inn gay bar, causing a series of protests that inspired the Gay Liberation Movement and eventual first Pride Parade. Today, we honor the q***r revolutionaries who made change possible, and who remind us that we will never go back.

Josephine Donovan's 2021 Lambda Literary Awards finalist The Lexington Six offers a biographical account of the five le****ns and one gay man whose acts of resistance and defiance, like the Stonewall Uprisings, are incredibly resonant in today's political climate.

Reminder: you can get 20% OFF your purchase with code UMASS20 when you order from our website HERE: https://www.umasspress.com/9781625345448/the-lexington-six/!

06/27/2025

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This Friday, we're highlighting an April 2025 release from the UMass Press!

Cameron offers a biography of C. Everett Koop, former Surgeon General of the United States. This first full biography of Koop draws on thousands of documents and hundreds of interviews with family, friends, and colleagues to tell the story of the precocious boy from Brooklyn who was already the world's most celebrated pediatric surgeon when he became Surgeon General and one of the most recognizable public figures in late-20th century America.

Reminder: you can get 20% OFF your purchase with code UMASS20 when you order from our website HERE: https://www.umasspress.com/9781625348531/dr-koop/!

06/23/2025

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Amy Hoffman's memoir An Army of Ex-Lovers provides a glimpse into gay liberation in the 1970s, before AIDS, gay weddings, and The L Word - centered around Boston's weekly Gay Community News. Check out An Army of Ex-Lovers if you're interested in q***r memoir, q***r history, or q***r liberation movements in the US!

Reminder: you can get 20% OFF your purchase with code UMASS20 when you order from our website HERE: https://www.umasspress.com/9781558496217/an-army-of-ex-lovers/!

06/20/2025

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This Friday, we're highlighting a 2021 Lambda Literary Award finalist!

The Lexington Six tells a story of resistance and defiance in US q***r history, following the five le****ns and one gay man whose political resistance attracted national attention, inspiring a nationwide movement in other minority communities.

Reminder: you can get 20% OFF your purchase with code UMASS20 when you order from our website HERE: https://www.umasspress.com/9781625345448/the-lexington-six/!

06/19/2025

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Today, we're highlighting our recent release Out Doing Science, which is also a part of our Activist Studies of Science & Technology series!

Out Doing Science draws on historical archives, oral interviews, and participant observation of professional societies and workspaces, to interrogate the meanings of inclusion and why some LGBTQ STEM professionals have benefited from it more than others. It also advocates for a “q***r STEM” that challenges and transforms the racism, classism, sexism, cisheterosexism, and imperialism of these fields, institutions, and workspaces.

Reminder: you can get 20% OFF your purchase with code UMASS20 when you order from our website HERE: https://www.umasspress.com/9781625348807/out-doing-science/!

06/16/2025

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Love Makes a Family captures q***r life in the 1990s, providing photographs, interviews, and firsthand accounts of le***an, gay, bisexual, and transgender parents regarding their lives and relationships. Love Makes a Family is a must read!

Reminder: you can get 20% OFF your purchase with code UMASS20 when you order from our website HERE: https://www.umasspress.com/9781558491618/love-makes-a-family/!

06/13/2025

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This Friday, we're highlighting a biography that documents the lives of a gay couple in the early-20th century.

A Union Like Ours follows Harvard University scholar and activist F. O. Matthiessen and artist Russell Cheney, who fell in love in Paris in 1924. A Union Like Ours situates the couple’s private correspondence alongside other sources, and tells the remarkable story of their relationship in the context of shifting social dynamics in the United States.

Reminder: you can get 20% OFF your purchase with code UMASS20 when you order from our website HERE: https://www.umasspress.com/9781625346377/a-union-like-ours/!

06/12/2025

Cameron offers a biography of C. Everett Koop, former Surgeon General of the United States. This first full biography of Koop draws on thousands of documents and hundreds of interviews with family, friends, and colleagues to tell the story of the precocious boy from Brooklyn who was already the world's most celebrated pediatric surgeon when he became Surgeon General and one of the most recognizable public figures in late-20th century America.

Reminder: you can get 20% OFF your purchase with code UMASS20 when you order from our website HERE: https://www.umasspress.com/9781625348531/dr-koop/!

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