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Save the Date, Chicago!

It's been a blast showing off books in the @oupress.bsky.social "Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed" series at the Transformative Learning Conference at UCO today.

Many thanks to @thetattooedprof.bsky.social for modeling with a complete set of books in the series so far!

"Taos Society of Artists" Edited by Peter H. Hassrick, Gerald P. Peters and Melissa W. Speidel! www.oupress.com/978080619494...

"The California Camera Club: Collective Visions in the Making of the American West" by Carolin Görgen! www.oupress.com/978080619603...

"Rhino Tanks and Sticky Bombs: GI Ingenuity in World War II" by Robert P. Wettemann! www.oupress.com/978080619539...

"Tulsa, 2021: A Massacre's Centennial and a Nation's Reckoning" by Randy Krehbiel! www.oupress.com/978080619532...

"Low April Sun: A Novel" by @rankoutsider.bsky.social! www.oupress.com/978080619474...

"Empowered: A Woman Faculty of Color's Guide to Teaching and Thriving" by Chavella T. Pittman! www.oupress.com/978080619565...

"The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI" by Tricia Bertram Gallant and David A. Rettinger! www.oupress.com/978080619496...

Please join us in congratulating these recent OU Press authors as they have been selected as finalists for the Foreword INDIES Book Awards! View the complete list here ➡️ www.forewordreviews.com/articles/art...

Teaching doesn't always go as planned—and that's okay. Join our 4-week author-facilitated reading of Snafu Edu with Jessamyn Neuhaus @geekypedagogy.bsky.social. Evidence-based strategies for when things go wrong in the classroom.

Feb 17-Mar 16 | $15 | www.perusall.com/engage

#HigherEd #Teaching

Out Now! "After the Theft of the Sacred: Experiential Religion in Indigenous Writing" by Reginald Dyck shows how Native communities and characters use their lived religions to make sense of an increasingly fragmented and urban world. www.oupress.com/978080619651...

Books from L-R, top row then second: Folk-Say, We Pointed Them North, Oklahoma: Foot-Loose and Fancy-Free, John Joseph Mathews, And Still the Waters Run, and Ned Christie

Let's talk book history!

Next week I will give a talk on the history of @oupress.bsky.social (coauthored with Tom Kahle), "Book Publishing and the American West, Then & Now."

It's part of the American West & the Humanities series at OU.

Wednesday, 3/4, 1pm @ the Charles Russell Center.

New book review:
Ameen on Heppler, Jason A.: _Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism_. University of Oklahoma Press, 2024. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20142443

Out Now! "Reasons We Fight: Tejanos and American Wars, 1836-1972" by Alex Mendoza documents the circumstances that shaped military attitudes among Mexican Texans, along with their shifting ideas about identity, community, nationalism—and America itself. www.oupress.com/978080619654...

Me reading my copy of Jessamyn Neuhaus’s Snafu Edu while in my local library.

Read over winter break! So good! 🩷💙🩷

Publishing job, ICYMI:

We are looking for an acquisitions coordinator at @oupress.bsky.social to support our authors and acquisitions editors!

It is a good entry point for a career in book publishing.

Job is on-site in Norman.

Questions? andrewb@ou.edu

Apply here:
ou.taleo.net/careersectio...

We're Hiring! OUP is looking for our next acquisitions coordinator to support our acquisitions editors and authors. Sound like something you would be interested in? Apply today! This is a great position to get into the world of academic publishing. ➡️ ou.taleo.net/careersectio...

"Bridget's Gambit: A Saga of Family Enterprise in Gold Rush California" by Craig S. Harwood is the spirited biography of an audacious, persistent woman which brings to the forefront the largely unheralded contributions of women in the forming of California statehood. www.oupress.com/978080619655...

Quintard Taylor left an indelible impression on the OU Press team and he will be greatly missed. We are honored to share with you this information regarding his Celebration of Life service. Read more here: blackpast.org

We spy A LIFE ON FIRE by a Connie Cronley! Don’t miss out on the Tulsa Women’s Expo this weekend! General Admission is $7 at the Box Office on Expo days, or 2 for 1 with an online ticket special. Children 12 and under FREE! Learn more here: magiccitybooks.com/events/44962...

Promotional Flyer for Perusall Snafu Edu book club with author Jessamyn Neuhaus

Let's talk about things going wrong in teaching & learning! Join the #SnafuEdu (@oupress.bsky.social) @perusall.com book club, 2/17-3/16. Register: www.perusall.com/engage-book-....

Out Now! "Blood Vessels: Vigilante Violence in the American West" by Patrick T. Hoehne reframes the prevailing understanding of both the individual incidents of violent action and the larger history of vigilante violence in the antebellum United States. www.oupress.com/978080619610...

🚨New Episode Alert🚨

Kicking off Black History Month with Prof. Sara Gallagher (@sgallagher12.bsky.social) of Durham College and her book "Black Wests: Reshaping Race and Place in Popular Culture" (@oupress.bsky.social 2025).

writingwestwardpodcast.podbean.com/e/083-sara-g...

We're celebrating Black History Month at OUP! We've got a featured list of new and legacy titles on our homepage that you won't want to miss exploring this February. www.oupress.com

Author Talk "Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind" brings the fight for freedom to life, spotlights the abolitionist movement and Civil War through the bold story of James Montgomery, a...

Tonight! OUP authors Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer will talk about their book "Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery" via Zoom hosted by the State Library of Kansas. Register here ➡️ calendar.library.ks.gov/event/158036...

Next up is OUP author Tricia Bertram Gallant talking to the hosts of The Higher Edtech Podcast about "The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI" that she co-authored with David A. Rettinger.

This is not one to miss!

thehigheredtechpodcast.com/episode/s7e1...

Finding the Fizz with Flower Darby

Listen In! We've got some new podcast notifications to get you through this Wednesday. First up, OUP author @flowerdarby.bsky.social talks about her new book "The Joyful Online Teacher: Finding Our Fizz in Asynchronous Classes" on the Centering Centers podcast! open.spotify.com/episode/2mFC...

OU-NORMAN URGENT: The OU Norman campus will close beginning at 12 PM Friday, January 23, 2026. In-person classes canceled; no remote work.

The Dimensions of the Midwestern History Revival (pt 1) YouTube video by Middle West Review

OUP author Jon Lauck gathered with others at the AHA26 Conference last week to discuss The Dimensions of the Midwestern History Revival. You can watch the conference panel here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHq8...