Congratulations to OUP author Eddie Malone! His book "Sooner Spirit: The Rise of the Most Fanatical Fandom in College Sports" is on the Oklahoma Bestseller List. Thank you, Oklahoma readers! www.tulsapeople.com/about-town/o...

Oklahoma bestsellers: Sept. 6

This week's Oklahoma bestsellers are based on total number of sales at Best of Books in Edmond, Bluebird Books in Edmond, Brace Books & More in Ponca City, Full Circle

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Looking for Justice in Texas: A Century of Reckoning will be published by the University of Oklahoma Press this month. It contains eight fabulous essays about racial justice and policing. You may pre-order and use the code 18TEXAS26 for a 20% discount website: www.oupress.com/978080619723...

Looking for Justice in Texas - University of Oklahoma Press

Communities of color have long been subject to extreme policing and surveillance in Texas.  Despite such formidable challenges, these communities have launc...

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Mississippi militiamen went to militarize the border during the Mexican Revolution. read more in my chapter “The Invasion of Texas” in this exciting new volume from @oupress.bsky.social

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Looking for Justice in Texas: A Century of Reckoning will be published by the University of Oklahoma Press this month. It contains eight fabulous essays about racial justice and policing. You may pre-order and use the code 18TEXAS26 for a 20% discount website: www.oupress.com/978080619723...

Out Now! "John M. Schofield: Soldier–Statesman of the Civil War and Gilded Age" by Robert Wooster delivers a broad narrative beyond military experiences and unearths the complex relationship between the U.S. Army and American politics in the 19th century. www.oupress.com/978080619722...

Out Now! "Sooner Spirit: The Rise of the Most Fanatical Fandom in College Sports" by Eddie Malone. www.oupress.com/978080619704...

Out Now! "We Fought Back: The Black Legal Struggle for Education in Oklahoma Territory" by Sara Doolittle. www.oupress.com/978080619721...

Save the Date! On Sept. 12, 2026 at 4:00pm @magiccitybooks.bsky.social will partner with TU's Oklahoma Center for the Humanities to host a free, special event with OUP author, the Hon. Greg Bigler, in conversation with Jessica Doe. Books will be available at the event for purchase.

Today was back to school for many university students and professors, so what better time to check out NPR's interview with OUP author @tbertramgallant.bsky.social about academic integrity in the age of AI. Read or listen here ➡️ www.npr.org/2026/08/15/n...

The AI cheating disaster that forced Mexico's top university back to pen and paper

Widespread fraud on a university entrance exam in Mexico is one more example of cheating in the age of AI. NPR's Eyder Peralta talks with Tricia Bertram Gallant of UCSD about academic integrity.

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Today on Native America Calling, OUP author Thomas Michael Swensen (Tangirnaq Native Village) takes music fans to the fascinating intersection of punk music and Native America in his new book, “Where Next, Columbus?: A Native Punk Mixtape“. Check it out! www.nativeamericacalling.com/wednesday-au...

Wednesday, August 12, 2026 — Native Playlist: Thomas Michael Swensen and Debora Iyall » Native America Calling

Researcher and writer, Thomas Michael Swensen (Tangirnaq Native Village), takes music fans to the fascinating intersection of punk music and Native America in his new book, Where Next, Columbus?: A Na...

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Save the Date! OUP author, Eddie Malone, will be at Full Circle Bookstore August 25th at 6:30pm to launch his book "Sooner Spirit: The Rise of the Most Fanatical Fandom in College Sports". This is the perfect "back to school" event you don't want to miss! fullcirclebooks.com/event/2598/

Check out Gregory S. Wilson's review of David Brooks's "Restoring the Shining Waters: Superfund Success at Milltown, Montana," published in 2025 by @oupress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

ICYMI: FREE BOOK-LAUNCH WEBINAR! Join the launch party on Tuesday, August 11 at 3:00p EDT (UTC -4) for my new @oupress.bsky.social book, *UDL at Scale: Whole-Campus Universal Design for Learning.* Sign up at bit.ly/UDLBookLaunch & share this post, too. Want your own copy? bit.ly/UDL_at_Scale

Out Now! "UDL at Scale: Whole-Campus Universal Design for Learning" by @thomasjtobin.bsky.social is a call to action and a how-to guide and gives campus leaders and administrators the tools to expand UDL's reach. www.oupress.com/978080619706...

Out Now! "Storytelling Sovereignty: Indigenous Peoples and the Media" edited by Cristina L. Azocar and Meta G. Carstarphen helps readers not only understand Indigenous-produced media but also why it is so vital and a crucial contribution to the field. www.oupress.com/978080619718...

FREE BOOK-LAUNCH WEBINAR! AUG 11, 3p EDT To celebrate my new @oupress.bsky.social book, *#UDL at Scale,* I'm hosting a book-launch party Tuesday, August 11 at 3:00p EDT (UTC -4). Attend & you could win a copy! Sign up at bit.ly/UDLBookLaunch & share this post. Want your own? bit.ly/UDL_at_Scale

JUST 4 WEEKS TO GO! My new @oupress.bsky.social book, *UDL at Scale* will officially release on August 11. Read about 15 institutions who've actually done it. Want to host a book tour stop? DM me or see thomasjtobin.com. Please share this, & gift your campus leaders a copy. bit.ly/UDL_at_Scale

Out Now! "Fight Like a Machine: The Combat Future of the Human Body" by Thomas M. Hunt makes an eloquent case for rethinking what it means to be "fighting fit" in today's military—and what this means, in turn, for military recruitment, training, and strategy. www.oupress.com/978080619708...

“What a group of truly superb scholars has fashioned with Los Llaneros is no less than a re-invention of the Southern High Plains sense of self.”—Dan Flores, "Coyote America" Excited about "Los Llaneros," edited by Joel Zapata, Andrew Reynolds, Alex Hunt & John Beusterien from @oupress.bsky.social!

Thrilled to see a stack of copies of "Last One Walking: The Life of Cherokee Community Leader Charlie Soap" by Greg Shaw from @oupress.bsky.social on display at Collected Works bookstore in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Out Now! "Dancing with Manifest Destiny: Elite Men of Color and the Making of American Los Angeles" by Daniel B. Lynch recovers a layer in the origin story of LA, and offers insight into entanglements of race, masculinity, and politics that persist to this day. www.oupress.com/978080619703...

All of us at OUP are saddened to hear of the loss of scholar Laurence Hauptman. We were fortunate to work with him on several projects and his absence will be deeply felt.

New York Almanack@newyorkalmanack.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Dr. Laurence Hauptman, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at SUNY New Paltz, has passed at the age of 81. He was the author, co-author, or co-editor of twenty-one books and numerous articles, mostly on the Indigenous peoples of North America.

Want to know more about the US at 250? ReadUP! Here are some suggestions from university presses & their expert authors, reflecting on the American experiment from the Founding to today: https://bit.ly/4xQZlFq

New Review! As many educators are prepping their classes for the fall semester, this is a timely look at @flowerdarby.bsky.social's latest book 'The Joyful Online Teacher'. Many thanks to Beth Petitjean at the Reinert Center at SLU for posting. reinertcenter.com/2026/07/01/b...

Book Review of Flower Darby, The Joyful Online Teacher: Finding Our Fizz in Asynchronous Classes

From the Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed Series, University of Oklahoma Press, 2026. by Beth Petitjean, Ph.D., Digital Learning Specialist, Reinert Center Yes, it’s July. And, yes, it…

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- the sublime fanaticism of OU Sooner sports fans - Indigenous counterstories - introducing neurodiversity for educators - the combat future of the human body University press books = not boring!!! Take a look at the new @oupress.bsky.social Fall 2026 catalog > www.oupress.com/fall-winter-...

Out Now! "Little Liberia: A Dream of Black Freedom in the US-Mexico Borderlands" by Laura Hooton reveals the crucial role of the intersection of Black spaces and borderland places in the history of social movements and White supremacy in the United States and Mexico. www.oupress.com/978080619696...

"This has a little bit of everything: guerrilla warfare, the homefront experience, romance, a murder mystery. The result is an accessible, compelling narrative offering a well-researched look at a little-studied part of the war." emergingcivilwar.com/2026/06/23/b...

Book Review: Mollie Brumley's Civil War: Surviving the Guerrilla War in Arkansas - Emerging Civil War

Mollie Brumley’s Civil War: Surviving the Guerrilla War in Arkansas. By Theodore Catton. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2026. Hardcover, 240 pp. $32.95. Reviewed by Patrick Kelly-Fischer Ar...

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Tonight! Come learn about Dr. Priscilla Crawford's new book, "A Naturalist's Guide to Oklahoma." Dr. Crawford is an ecologist and biogeographer with the Oklahoma Biological Survey. Hosted by @sierraclub.org Oklahoma act.sierraclub.org/events/detai...

The Native American Church was legally incorporated more than 100 years ago to protect peyote use. The early history of the church is chronicled in "Peyote Politics," a book at the center of an Oklahoma Historical Society discussion this week. www.kosu.org/peyote-polit...

Oklahoma Historical Society book talk examines peyote history, making of the Native American Church

The Native American Church was legally incorporated more than 100 years ago to protect peyote use. The early history of the church is chronicled in Peyote Politics, a book at the center of an Oklahoma...

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On June 20, author and ecologist Priscilla Crawford, Naturalist visited Oxley Nature Center to give a presentation on her new book, "A Naturalist's Guide to Oklahoma". Read more here!

Scenes from Priscilla Crawford's book talk at Oxley Nature Center

On June 20, author and ecologist Priscilla H.C. Crawford, Ph.D., visited Oxley Nature Center to give a presentation on her new book, "A Naturalist's Guide to Oklahoma."

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Out Now! "Los Llaneros: The Mexican Southern Plains, 1500-1900" edited by Joel Zapata, Andrew Reynolds, Alex Hunt and John Beusterien is a timely reconsideration of an important region and its diverse peoples. www.oupress.com/978080619700...