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01/09/2024

29/08/2024

The Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture proudly announces the highly successful opening of the Outré West: The American School of Architecture from Oklahoma to California exhibition. Held on August 22, 2024, at the Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, the event drew hundreds of attendees.

27/08/2024

Come work with us! We're seeking a Project Editor to join our team. The Project Editor will oversee the editorial and production process from unedited manuscript to printer-ready proofs for 25-30 books annually.

Does this sound like a good fit for you? Apply here! https://ou.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=242276&tz=GMT-05%3A00&tzname=America%2FChicago

26/08/2024

OUP author Monika Maeckle had her first book event this weekend at Maria's Bookshop in Durango. Many thanks to all who stopped by and to the bookstore staff that makes events like this possible! Still need a copy? Grab it here - https://www.oupress.com/9780806194561/the-monarch-butterfly-migration/

23/08/2024

That’s our book! Thank you, Kirkus Reviews! Want to read THE BONE PICKER before its publication on October 8th? Request a copy on Edelweiss or send us a message!

23/08/2024

Summer's not over just yet! There's still time to get out and explore and we cannot recommend HERE TODAY highly enough. oupress.com/9780806193724/…

Where will YOU go this weekend? Explore (or imagine exploring)!

Here Today: Oklahoma’s Ghost Towns, Vanishing Towns, and Towns Persisting against the Odds https://a.co/d/dEVlSAM

22/08/2024

We're in a Midwest Moment and who better to lead us through than OUP author Jon Lauck and his book THE GOOD COUNTRY.

The vice presidential candidates have thrust a “forgotten” region back into the spotlight. But which version of the Midwest will voters find most compelling?

21/08/2024

Headed out to newsstands and subscribers now! The October special Women of the West issue of Cowboys & Indians Magazine features OUP author Loretta Barrett Oden and CORN DANCE! Many thanks to the C&I editorial team for such a gorgeous (and tasty looking) spread.

20/08/2024

It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of OUP author, Dr. Linda Reese. We thank fellow OUP author and historian, Patricia Loughlin, for this moving tribute.

A graduate of the University of Oklahoma, Reese was professor emerita at East Central University, and a mentor to many graduate students at the University of Oklahoma and beyond. She served on the board of directors for Oklahoma Humanities and the Oklahoma Historical Society. Her books included Women of Oklahoma, 1890-1920, Main Street Oklahoma: Stories of Twentieth-Century America, and Trail Sisters: Freedwomen in Indian Territory, 1850-1890. Reese was inducted in the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2014 and the Oklahoma Historical Society has an annual award in her name for Outstanding Dissertation or Thesis on Oklahoma History.

Her service will take place Saturday, August 24 at 2:00 pm at St. Stephen’s United Methodist Church in Norman, OK.

20/08/2024

Out Now! "The Monarch Butterfly Migration: Its Rise and Fall" by Monika Maeckle. https://www.oupress.com/9780806194561/the-monarch-butterfly-migration/

Each fall, millions of monarch butterflies migrate from Canada to Mexico. Their incredible journey—nearly 3,000 miles long—takes them through Oklahoma, Texas, and other US states, where butterfly devotees eagerly await their arrival. The monarch migration is a brilliant demonstration of nature’s ingenuity, but the delicate creatures face many perils, and the number of migrating monarchs is declining sharply. This compelling book weaves natural history, science, and personal experience to explore the rise and fall of one of nature’s most spectacular phenomena.

While monarch butterflies have been migrating for centuries, they seized public attention in 1976 when a National Geographic magazine cover story featured the “discovery” of their roosting sites in Mexico. The article rocked the world of lepidoptery, solved a scientific mystery, and opened the door to human meddling. The new revelations put a spotlight on the insects, and inspired the creation of butterfly sanctuaries in Mexico as well as myriad efforts to protect them. Almost 40 years later, many believe that monarch butterflies are in danger of extinction. How real is that danger?

Journalist and butterfly advocate Monika Maeckle addresses this question and more as she delves into the rich history and current plight of the monarch butterfly. Through meticulous reporting, Maeckle offers unique insights on the butterflies as well as a nuanced portrait of the shifting and sometimes contentious community of scientists, enthusiasts, and “flutterati” who have emerged to support the monarchs’ cause.

A highly engaging book, The Monarch Butterfly Migration also focuses a wider lens on the effects of climate change and the tensions between advocacy and scientific accuracy. In addition to calling for environmental sustainability, this book reminds each of us to notice—and never take for granted—the natural wonders in our own backyards.

19/08/2024

Did you hear the news? OUP is now on Instagram! You can find us - follow us and share in the bookish love! https://www.instagram.com/oupressbooks/

19/08/2024

Happy First Day of Classes, OU!

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19/08/2024

🦉What's that creeping into mailboxes? It's the first bulk mail out of advance reader copies of BONE PICKER by Devon Mihesuah! Want to read it now? Request a review copy from Edelweiss here https://www.edelweiss.plus/ =5026152&page=1

14/08/2024

“A chilling collection of stories about the tricksters and other beings of Choctaw lore who refuse to be forgotten."—Kirkus Reviews

Do you read ? Make sure THE BONE PICKER is on your TBR stack this fall. Early review copies are now on Edelweiss!

14/08/2024

We love to see it! Our former editorial director, Kent Calder, is the East Texas Historical Association's Pine Cone Profile for August! Read the interview here - https://www.easttexashistorical.org/profiles

13/08/2024

Out Now! "Red Earth Nation: A History of the Meskwaki Settlement" by Eric Steven Zimmer. https://www.oupress.com/9780806193878/red-earth-nation/

In 1857, the Meskwaki Nation purchased an eighty-acre parcel of land along the Iowa River. With that modest plot secured as a place to rest and rebuild after centuries of devastation and dispossession, the Meskwaki, or "Red Earth People," began to reclaim their homeland—an effort that Native nations continue to this day in what has recently come to be called the movement. Red Earth Nation explores the long history of through the Meskwaki Nation’s story, one of the oldest and clearest examples of direct-purchase Indigenous land reclamation in American history.

Spanning Indigenous environmental and political history from the Red Earth People’s creation to the twenty-first century, Red Earth Nation focuses on the Meskwaki Settlement: now comprising more than 8,000 acres, this is sovereign Meskwaki land, not a treaty-created reservation. Currently the largest employer in Tama County, Iowa, the Meskwaki Nation has long used its land ownership and economic clout to resist the forces of colonization and create opportunities for self-determination.

But the Meskwaki story is not one of smooth or straightforward progress. Eric Steven Zimmer describes the assaults on tribal sovereignty visited on the Meskwaki Nation by the local, state, and federal governments that surround it. In these instances, the Meskwaki Settlement provided political leverage and an anchor for community cohesion, as generations of Meskwaki deliberately and strategically—though not always successfully—used their collective land ownership to affirm tribal sovereignty and exercise self-determination.

Revealing how the Red Earth People have negotiated shifting environmental, economic, and political circumstances to rebuild in the face of incredible pressures, Red Earth Nation shows that with their first, eighty-acre land purchase in the 1850s, Meskwaki leaders initiated a process that is still under way. Indeed, Native nations across the United States have taken up the cause, marshaling generations of resistance to reframe the history of Indigenous dispossession to explore stories of reclamation and tribal sovereignty.

09/08/2024

Can't think of a better place to spend National Book Lovers Day than right here. 😌📚

08/08/2024

ICYMI: "National Parks, Native Sovereignty: Experiments in Collaboration" Edited by Christina Gish Hill, Matthew J. Hill and Brooke Neely was featured in USA TODAY!

U.S. national parks were once tribal homelands or sacred sites. A new effort hopes tourists will help native peoples maintain those connections.

06/08/2024

And just like that, our Fall 2024 season has begun! Happy Publication Day to "Latin Redux: A Second-Year Grammar Review" by Susan O. Shapiro. https://www.oupress.com/9780806193915/latin-redux/

For many Latin students, the second year of study marks an exciting turning point. Having learned the basics of grammar and vocabulary, they are finally ready to encounter “real” Latin authors, usually Caesar or Cicero, for the first time. Yet these same students often grow frustrated when they realize their grasp of Latin grammar is not as solid as they would wish. This student-friendly handbook offers intermediate learners a targeted review of the essentials of Latin grammar, enabling them to read assigned texts with greater facility.

The fifteen lessons in Latin Redux focus on topics that many students do not learn thoroughly in the first year, such as gerunds and gerundives, or that are sometimes omitted for lack of time, such as subordinate clauses in indirect discourse. The lessons are presented in order of difficulty, but they can be used in any order and can all be completed within a single semester. After reviewing these lessons in grammar and syntax, students will be more confident when they encounter the same structures in their readings.

As the first book of its kind to supplement the curriculum of intermediate students, Latin Redux fills an important niche in Latin instruction. Classroom tested by the author, the handbook complements any Latin prose or poetry readings an instructor might select. Adding to its appeal, each chapter includes a fun “Lingua Latina Ubique” (Latin Language Everywhere) section that highlights how much Latin we use every day. The volume is further enhanced by Latin-to-English and English-to-Latin glossaries and a grammatical appendix.

01/08/2024

Did you know Oklahoma is home to 117 mammals and 1 marsupial? This newly updated edition of Mammals of Oklahoma is the definitive desk reference and field guide.

31/07/2024

Out Now! "Mammals of Oklahoma, Second Edition "by William Caire, Lynda Loucks and Michelle L Haynie. https://www.oupress.com/9780806193694/mammals-of-oklahoma/

“This much-needed, well-constructed, and easy-to-use synopsis will prove useful for the professional and lay enthusiast alike. Given the complex habitats and numerous ecoregions that Oklahoma shares with its neighboring states, this second edition of Mammals of Oklahoma offers a one-stop shopping opportunity for biologists and travelers interested in mammals of the southwest and south-central United States.”—Robert D. Bradley, Coauthor of The Mammals of Texas, Seventh Edition

Oklahoma is currently home to 117 known species of mammals, representing one marsupial (opossums; Didelphimorphia), seven insectivores (shrews and moles; Soricomorpha), twenty-three bats (Chiroptera), one armadillo (Cingulata), four rabbits (Lagomorpha), fifty-one rodents (Rodentia), twenty-two carnivores (Carnivora), and eight artiodactyls (deer, pronghorn, sheep, and bison; Artiodactyla). For the professional mammalogist and amateur naturalist alike, Mammals of Oklahoma provides a clear, comprehensive, illustrated guide to Oklahoma’s diverse native fauna, as well as introduced species and extirpated and unverified mammals cited in the state’s records.

Incorporating the latest data, this second edition includes up-to-date descriptions and identification keys; line drawings and full-color photos and distribution maps; life history information; and ecological notes on such things as dens, nests, burrows, food habits, reproduction, pathogens and parasites, and predators. The book’s etymology offers insight into each species’ scientific name, and its natural history describes habitat and diseases, among other distinguishing characteristics. A glossary provides guidance on technical terms.

This accessible and authoritative volume marks a significant update and expansion of the knowledge of mammals in Oklahoma. It will be the definitive desk reference and field guide to the state’s rich mammalian diversity.

23/07/2024

Out Now! "Indigenous War Painting of the Plains: An Illustrated History" by Arni Brownstone. https://www.oupress.com/9780806193649/indigenous-war-painting-of-the-plains/

“Indigenous War Painting of the Plains is the capstone on Arni Brownstone's decades of research on Plains Indian narrative painting. Methodologically innovative, visually stunning, entirely convincing. Wow. What a book!”—Christian F. Feest, author of Native Arts of North America

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains practiced an archival art—narrating war exploits in large-scale paintings executed on animal hide robes, shirts, tipi covers, and tipi liners. Essentially autobiographical, the paintings were worn and lived in by the men whose war exploits they portrayed, and were made to be “read” by the public at large. Executed in a pictorial narrative style and documenting actual events, these paintings blend visual art and history.

Indigenous War Painting of the Plains is the first comprehensive look at this important North American art form, covering the full corpus of war paintings from fourteen tribes across the plains.

Two impediments have previously made such a book impractical: photography alone falls short of rendering war paintings for the printed page, and only about half of the surviving works have reliable documentation on their cultural origins. Arni Brownstone surmounts these difficulties by producing precise electronic redrawings and by using well-documented paintings to inform poorly documented examples, bolstered by a careful examination of collection histories. Featuring some 300 photographs and electronic redrawings, the book focuses on 83 paintings organized into four chapters covering the paintings of tribes associated with a specific geographical sphere of artistic influence. Four appendixes feature paintings combined with “translations” by Indigenous collaborators who had intimate knowledge of the depicted events.

Offering vivid access to the key works of war painting preserved in 37 museums throughout North America and Europe, Indigenous War Painting of the Plains illuminates distinctions between painting styles of different tribes, reveals how they influenced one another and changed over time, and conveys a deep understanding of how war painting developed in relation to profound social changes in Plains Indian cultures.

19/07/2024

Due to the widespread tech outages, the Oklahoma History Center Museum will offer FREE admission today. The museum will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Unfortunately, the OHS Research Center and Oklahoma State Historic Preservation Office will be closed. Thanks for your understanding!

16/07/2024

Today is the day! A PEDAGOGY OF KINDNESS by Catherine Denial is officially out in the world!

https://www.oupress.com/9780806193854/a-pedagogy-of-kindness/

Academia is not, by and large, a kind place. Individualism and competition are what count. But without kindness at its core, Catherine Denial suggests, higher education fails students and instructors—and its mission—in critical ways.

Part manifesto, part teaching memoir, part how-to guide, A Pedagogy of Kindness urges higher education to get aggressive about instituting kindness, which Denial distinguishes from niceness. Having suffered beneath the weight of just “getting along,” instructors need to shift every part of what they do to prioritizing care and compassion—for students as well as for themselves.

A Pedagogy of Kindness articulates a fresh vision for teaching, one that focuses on ensuring justice, believing people, and believing in people. Offering evidence-based insights and drawing from her own rich experiences as a professor, Denial offers practical tips for reshaping syllabi, assessing student performance, and creating trust and belonging in the classroom. Her suggestions for concrete, scalable actions outline nothing less than a transformational discipline—one in which, together, we create bright new spaces, rooted in compassion, in which all engaged in teaching and learning might thrive.

12/07/2024

With heavy hearts, we mark the passing of Jeremy M. Johnston, co-editor of our William F. Cody Series on the History and Culture of the American West. Our heartfelt condolences to those in the Western history community and beyond who will miss Jeremy’s intellect, stories, and sense of humor.

11/07/2024

Hey, , THE BONE PICKER by Devon Mihesuah has earned a starred review in Kirkus Reviews! If this one isn't on your spooky season TBR list, now's the time to add it! https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/devon-mihesuah/the-bone-picker/

11/07/2024

The butterflies are coming and so is Monika Maeckle's new book, "The Monarch Butterfly Migration: Its Rise and Fall"! This essential book for anyone who loves butterflies comes out August 20th and is available for pre-order now wherever books are sold.

Deep in the forests of Mexico, millions of monarch butterflies spend their winter sheltered from the cold. Once spring arrives, it is time for them to awaken...