Save the Date: The Pre-Columbian Society to Host Martha Macri: "The Isthmian Script: A New Approach to Decipherment" March 14th at 1:30pm! More information here ➡️ precolumbian.org/next-meeting/

Book cover for *UDL at Scale: Whole-Campus Universal Design for Learning* by Thomas J. Tobin. Background image is the visible-light image of the Trifid Nebula, taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope.

NEW UDL BOOK Coming August 1!

Okay, friends, I'm excited. *UDL at Scale* has a cover & an August 2026 release date.

Watch for the @oupress.bsky.social pre-order web site to go live at the end of March.

Who wants one? And who wants me to visit or give a webinar?

Let’s go #OLA2026! @oupress.bsky.social is ready for you! Can’t join us in person? You can still shop our booth. Use promo code 18OLA26 at oupress.com and get 40% off your order!

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.

Heppler, Jason A.. Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism. : University of Oklahoma Press, 2024. 224 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 9780806193748. Reviewed by Rachel Ameen (Syracuse University) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (February, 2026) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

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! 🩷💙🩷

Acquisitions Coordinator Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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...

083 - Sara Gallagher - Black Wests: Reshaping Race and Place in Popular Culture | Writing Westward Podcast A conversation with literary scholar Sara Gallagher about their book Black Wests: Reshaping Race and Place in Popular Culture (University of Oklahoma Press, 2025)   Sara Gallagher is Professor of Libe...

🚨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...

S7E12 – The Opposite of Cheating with Dr. Tricia Bertram Gallant Tim and Brent sit down with Dr. Tricia Bertram Gallant to talk about ideas around…

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...