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20/12/2024

Rhino Tanks, Horses, Ai (and more) - Oh My! Our Spring/Summer 2025 catalog is here! Browse upcoming titles and save on new releases through January 6th ➡ https://www.oupress.com/spring-summer-2025/

20/12/2024

Many thanks to Moran Elwell of The Oklahoman for this feature and boosting two OUP titles! Make sure you check out LAST ONE WALKING by Greg Shaw and LOW APRIL SUN by Constance Squires! Both titles are currently included in our 40% off holiday sale through January 6th.

Whether you're looking for your next read or want to buy a gift for someone, here are several new books out with Oklahoma ties.

19/12/2024

🎧 Lunchtime Listen! 🎧 OUP author Michelle Miller speaks with Christina Gessler of the Academic Life podcast about her new book "A Teacher’s Guide to Learning Student Names: Why You Should, Why It’s Hard, How You Can".

Podcast Episode · The Academic Life · 12/19/2024 · 1h 2m

19/12/2024

We are nothing if not timely. In this season of quiet and contemplation, "The Present Professor by Liz Norell may help you reflect on what you’re doing and why you’re doing it." Must read 🔗

The Present Professor may help you reflect on what you’re doing and why you’re doing it.

17/12/2024

Out Now! "Team of Giants: The Making of the Spanish-American War" by Matthew Bernstein. https://www.oupress.com/9780806194714/team-of-giants/

If not for an unlikely alliance among a bespectacled cowboy, a former Confederate general, and a millionaire newspaper publisher, the Spanish-American War might never have been. How these three outsize characters—Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph “Fighting Joe” Wheeler, and William Randolph Hearst—helped ignite the war that established the United States’ offshore empire is the rousing tale that Matthew Bernstein tells in Team of Giants.

From his days as a Dakota deputy sheriff, Theodore Roosevelt had dreamed of leading a cowboy regiment into battle. With a little help from his friends, in 1898 he got his wish. While Roosevelt raised the Rough Riders in San Antonio, Congressman Wheeler delivered bellicose speeches from the US Capitol, and Hearst pulled out all the stops in the San Francisco Examiner and New York Journal. With the destruction of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor and President William McKinley’s call for war, the two greatest star reporters of the era, rivals Richard Harding Davis and Stephen Crane, headed for Cuba to do their part. In Bernstein’s sweeping history, these towering figures come to life as they set in motion events that would put a period on the Civil War era, transform the global media landscape, and alter geopolitics for the twentieth century—with the plight of the Cuban people serving as a backdrop for a world-class contest of wills and wiles.

A stirring narrative built on rigorous research, Team of Giants is a fresh account of the role the martial ambitions of these men played in a war that would launch the American Century and set each man on the path to his own place in history.

12/12/2024

ICYMI: Pocket Prairies, Monarch Migration, Fire Cider, Winter Prep Containers and more!

A bit on the gangly side, and somewhat depleted by drought, native Drummond's aster stretches wide open stems to welcome hop-scotching bees in my garden. Butterflies and other pollinators should be here, too, but extended heat and drought have seriously downsized the crowds. For years, harsh

10/12/2024

We are saddened to learn of the passing of OUP author José Angel Hernández. His book "Colonizing Ourselves: Tejano Back-to-Mexico Movements and the Making of a Settler Colonial Nation," is part of our New Directions in Tejano History, edited by Alberto Rodriguez and Tim Bowman. Please join us in extending our condolences to the University of Houston community. https://uh.edu/class/news/archive/2024/december/remembering-jos%C3%A9-angel-hern%C3%A1ndez/index.php

10/12/2024

Texas Butterfly Ranch founder Monika Maeckle has a new book, “The Monarch Butterfly Migration, Its Rise and Fall,” perfect for the gardener on your list.

10/12/2024

🗣️ 𝐘𝐎𝐔'𝐕𝐄 𝐆𝐎𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒!

Wishing our students nothing but the best as they close out the fall semester this week! Boomer!

10/12/2024

What a stunning early review of OSAGE LANGUAGE AND LIFEWAYS in Osage News. Many thanks to Chelsea T. Hicks for her editorial!

The first Osage grammar textbook to be published, it is available for pre-order and will be released April 8, 2025

09/12/2024

LAST ONE WALKING by Greg Shaw is on the Oklahoma Bestseller List. Thank you, Oklahoma readers!

This week's Oklahoma best sellers are based on total number of sales at Tulsa's Magic City Books, Best of Books in Edmond, Brace Books in Ponca City, and Full Circle

09/12/2024

Instructor Shares Guide to Improve Teaching Through Self-Awareness. OUP author Liz Norell offers research and practices to remove mental distractions, boost learning

OXFORD, Miss. – When educators work to declutter their minds of stress and uncertainty, they can foster student relationships and environments that empower learning, a University of Mississippi instructor explains in her new book.

06/12/2024

Author Devon A. Mihesuah's THE BONE PICKER explores alternative histories in Indigenous Horror. Read more about the collection right here.

05/12/2024

New Review! "The Bone Picker fills a massive void in both genres of horror and folklore. This collection is multi-generational and will preserve Indigenous traditions through fiction for years to come." - Cemetery Dance Publications

The Bone Picker by Devon A. Mihesuah University of Oklahoma Press (October 2024) Reviewed by Rowan B. Minor Devon A. Mihesuah is a writer, historian, and the Cora Lee Beers Price Professor in the H…

04/12/2024

ICYMI: 🎧Lunchtime Listen🎧

Faculty often have a teaching persona that they bring to the classroom. In this episode, Liz Norell joins us to discuss the benefits of sharing your authentic self with your students. Liz is a political scientist and the Associate Director of Instructional Support at the University of Mississippi Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. She is also the author of The Present Professor: Authenticity and Transformational Teaching.

Faculty often have a teaching persona that they bring to the classroom. In this episode, Liz Norell joins us to discuss the benefits of sharing your authentic self with your students. Liz is a political scientist and the Associate Director of Instructional Support at the University of Mississippi Ce...

04/12/2024

What excellent news! We might be biased, but we think this is a book you need to share with the educators in your life. It will make for perfect holiday break reading AND it's included in our 40% off holiday sale now through January 6th. What's not to love?!

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03/12/2024

Out Now! "The Present Professor: Authenticity and Transformational Teaching" by Elizabeth A. Norell. https://www.oupress.com/9780806194691/the-present-professor/

It’s hard to learn when you’re under stress, and a lot harder when your teacher is struggling with stress, too. In a world where stress is unavoidable—where political turmoil, pandemic fallout, and personal challenges touch everyone—this timely book offers much-needed guidance for cutting through the emotional static that can hold teachers back. A specialist in pedagogical strategies with extensive classroom experience, Elizabeth A. Norell explains how an educator’s presence, or authenticity, can be critical to creating transformational spaces for students. And presence, she argues, means uncovering and understanding one’s own internal struggles and buried insecurities—stresses often left unconfronted in an academic culture that values knowing over feeling. Presenting the research on how and why such inner work unlocks transformational learning, The Present Professor equips educators with the tools for crafting a more authentic presence in their teaching work.

At a time of crisis in higher education, as teachers struggle to find new ways to relate to, think about, and instruct students, this book holds a key. Implementing more inclusive pedagogies, Norell suggests, requires sorting out our own identities. In short, if we want to create spaces where students have the confidence, comfort, and psychological safety to learn and grow, we have to create spaces where we do, too. The Present Professor is dedicated to that proposition, and to helping educators build that transformational space.

02/12/2024

Sharing on behalf of our friends at the Couse-Sharp Historic Site. Ginnie will be sorely missed. We were honored to work with her in 2019 on her book EANGER IRVING COUSE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AN AMERICAN ARTIST, 1866-1936.

View Virginia Couse Leavitt's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.