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University presses of the United States
- University of California PressUniversity of California Press was founded in 1893 with a single purpose: to publish the scholarly and scientific work of faculty at the University of…
- New York University PressChancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown established New York University Press in 1916. The press began operations that same year under his direct supervision.
- Princeton University PressPrinceton University Press opened its doors in 1905, founded by a recent Princeton graduate named Whitney Darrow with startup money from Charles Scribner II…
- Columbia University PressColumbia University Press has been shaping how the world reads, studies, and questions things since May 1893. It was born in New York City, tied to Columbia…
- Air University PressAir University Press operates as a division of the Academic Services Directorate. It resides within the Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center at…
- University of Chicago PressThe University of Chicago Press published its very first book in 1890, and it was not an easy sell. Robert F. Harper's Assyrian and Babylonian Letters…
- Harvard University PressHarvard University Press opened its doors on the 13th of January, 1913, as a formal division of Harvard University. What began as a single academic…
- SUNY PressThe State University of New York Press opened its doors in 1966. This new entity emerged from the State University of New York system to serve a specific…
- Cornell University PressCornell University Press began its life in 1869 inside the College of the Mechanic Arts. This college taught mechanical engineering during the nineteenth…
- MIT PressThe year 1926 marked the first appearance of MIT Press origins when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published a lecture series titled Problems of…
- Duke University PressWilliam T. Laprade established The Trinity College Press in 1921 within the walls of what was then called Trinity College.
- Fairleigh Dickinson University PressFairleigh Dickinson University Press was born out of an unlikely partnership between a university founder and a publisher who had just walked away from one…
- Stanford University PressStanford University Press began not with a grand institutional decree but with a condition. When David Starr Jordan accepted the presidency of Stanford…
- Johns Hopkins University PressDaniel Coit Gilman stood at the helm of Johns Hopkins University in 1878 when he inaugurated a new publishing division. This entity began life as the…
- University of Illinois PressThe University of Illinois Press has been putting scholarly books into the world since 1918, making it one of the older academic publishers in the United…
- University of North Carolina PressThe University of North Carolina Press began its publishing history in 1925 with a volume titled Southern Pioneers in Social Interpretation.
- University of Pennsylvania PressThe Pennsylvania state government incorporated the University of Pennsylvania Press on the 26th of March 1890. This legal act created one of the earliest…
- Syracuse University PressAugust 1943 marked the birth of Syracuse University Press. President William P. Tolley made a promise to Thomas J. Watson that day.
- Louisiana State University PressThe Louisiana State University Press opened its doors in 1935 at Louisiana State University. Its initial mission focused on publishing scholarly works for…
- Fordham University PressThe Fordham University Press opened its doors in 1907 as a division of Fordham University. It stands today as the oldest Catholic university press in the…
- Indiana University PressIndiana University Press opened its doors in 1950 under the leadership of President Herman B Wells. The press began with a single translation titled Travels…
- University of Georgia PressThe University of Georgia Press opened its doors in 1938 within the Athens campus. It stands today as the oldest and largest publishing house in the entire…
- Yale University PressYale University Press traces its origins to 1908, when George Parmly Day and Clarence Day, grandsons of the newspaper pioneer Benjamin Day, founded it as a…
- Penn State University PressThe Penn State University Press opened its doors in 1956 as a new division of the Pennsylvania State University Library system.
- University Press of KentuckyThe University Press of Kentucky did not begin with a grand launch or a ribbon-cutting ceremony. It grew quietly from a university-sponsored publication…
- University of Minnesota PressThe University of Minnesota Press opened its doors in 1925 as a small operation within the state university system. Its initial mission focused on supporting…
- University of Michigan PressThe University of Michigan Press began its life in 1930 under the Graduate School. Before this date, the university had no organized entity for scholarly…
- Michigan State University PressIn 1876, Professor A.J. Cook commissioned a Lansing printer to produce his Manual of the Apiary. This text ran through numerous editions and remained in…
- University of South Carolina PressThe University of South Carolina Press opened its doors in 1944. This new entity emerged from the heart of the university system to serve a specific academic…
- Rutgers University PressRutgers University Press opened its doors on the 26th of March 1936 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The press began as a nonprofit academic house under Rutgers…
- University of Hawaiʻi PressGregg M. Sinclair, president of the University of Hawai'i, established the press in 1947 to publish research across humanities and sciences for Asia and the…
- University of Nebraska PressThe University of Nebraska Press has published more than 4,000 books since it opened its doors in November 1941. That number is striking enough.
- University Press of KansasThe University Press of Kansas opened its doors in 1946 within the state of Kansas. It began as a single entity under the University of Kansas.
- University Press of MississippiThe University Press of Mississippi opened its doors in 1970. This was not a solitary venture by one university. Eight state universities joined forces to…
- University Press of FloridaThe University of Florida Press opened its doors in 1945 within the state of Florida. This new entity stood about four miles from the main campus of the…
- University of Massachusetts PressThe University of Massachusetts Press opened its doors in 1963 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Its initial mandate focused on producing scholarly…