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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 from Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, tucked inside the Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center.
- 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 has the distinction of being the first university publishing enterprise established in the United States, founded in 1869.
- 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 PressJohns Hopkins University Press has been publishing continuously since 1878, making it the oldest university press still operating in the United States.
- 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 PressFordham University Press has been putting ideas into print since 1907, making it the oldest Catholic university press in the United States and the…
- Indiana University PressBloomington, Indiana is home to Indiana University Press, an academic publisher specializing in the humanities and social sciences.
- University of Georgia PressThe University of Georgia Press has spent more than eight decades quietly becoming the oldest and largest publishing house in the state of Georgia.
- 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 PressPenn State University Press published its very first book under a plain title: Penn State Yankee, the autobiography of Fred Lewis Pattee.
- 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 PressEighteen full-time staff members run Rutgers University Press, a nonprofit publishing house operating under the authority of Rutgers University in New…
- 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 FloridaSince 1945, the University Press of Florida has published books from Gainesville without interruption. It is the oldest book publisher in the state.
- 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…