University Of Oklahoma Press imprint: 604 books
Blacks in White Colleges
Oklahoma's Landmark Cases
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
When George Lynn Cross arrived to teach botany at the University of Oklahoma in the summer of 1934, racial segregation was so strong in Norman that no African American dared remain within the city limits after sundown. Almost ten years later when Cross became president of the university, the full...
The University of Oklahoma
A History, Volume II: 1917–1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
In 1917 it was still possible for the University of Oklahoma’s annual Catalogue to include a roster of every student’s name and hometown. A compact and close-knit community, those 2,500 students and their 130 professors studied and taught at a respectable (though small, relatively uncomplicated,...
Prairie Power
Student Activism, Counterculture, and Backlash in Oklahoma, 1962–1972
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Student radicals and hippies—in Oklahoma? Though most scholarship about 1960s-era student activism and the counterculture focuses on the East and West Coasts, Oklahoma’s college campuses did see significant activism and “dropping out.” In Prairie Power, Sarah Eppler Janda fills a gap in the...
Guide to Photographs in the Western History Collections of the University of Oklahoma
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Begun in 1927 by University of Oklahoma history professor Edward Everett Dale, the Western History Collections gathers and preserves rare research materials for scholars in anthropology, Native American studies, Oklahoma history, and the history of the American West. This guide has been compiled to...
Twentieth-Century Oklahoma
Reflections on the Forty-Sixth State
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Few writers have written as thoughtfully and extensively on Oklahoma politics and culture as Richard Lowitt. His work of the past six decades moves with ease among historical topics as various as agriculture, health, industry, labor, and the environment, offering an informed and enlightened perspective....
Race and the University
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
In 1967, George Henderson, the son of uneducated Alabama sharecroppers, accepted a full-time professorship at the University of Oklahoma, despite his mentor's warning to avoid the "redneck school in a backward state." Henderson became the university's third African American professor, a...
The University of Oklahoma
A History, Volume 1: 1890–1917
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
This book, the first in a projected three-volume definitive history, traces the University’s progress from territorial days to 1917. David W. Levy examines the people and events surrounding the school’s formation and development, chronicling the determined ambition of pioneers to transform a seemingly...
by Michael J. Hightower
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
This lively book takes Oklahoma history into the world of Wild West capitalism. It begins with a useful survey of banking from the early days of the American republic until commercial patterns coalesced in the East. It then follows the course of American expansion westward, tracing the evolution of...
Shot in Oklahoma
A Century of Sooner State Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
When inventor and movie studio pioneer Thomas Edison wanted to capture western magic on film in 1904, where did he send his crew?
To Oklahoma's 101 Ranch near Ponca City. And when Francis Ford Coppola readied young actors Tom Cruise and Matt Dillon to portray teen class strife in the 1983 movie...
by Michael J. Hightower
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
The story of banking in twentieth-century Oklahoma is also the story of the Sooner State’s first hundred years, as Michael J. Hightower’s new book demonstrates. Oklahoma statehood coincided with the Panic of 1907, and both events signaled seismic shifts in state banking practices. Much as Oklahoma...
Red Dirt Women
At Home on the Oklahoma Plains
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
For many people who have never spent time in the state, Oklahoma conjures up a series of stereotypes: rugged cowboys, tipi-dwelling American Indians, uneducated farmers. When women are pictured at all, they seem frozen in time: as the bonneted pioneer woman stoically enduring hardship or the bedraggled,...
The Sooner Story
The University of Oklahoma, 1890–2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
David Ross Boyd stepped off the train in Norman, Oklahoma, on August 6, 1892, and looked toward the southwest. “There was not a tree or shrub in sight,” wrote the former Kansas school superintendent just hired to serve as the University of Oklahoma’s first president. “Behind me was a crude...
Oklahoma
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
The product of two of Oklahoma’s foremost authorities on the history of the 46th state, Oklahoma: A History is the first comprehensive narrative to bring the story of the Sooner State to the threshold of its centennial.
From the tectonic formation of Oklahoma’s varied landscape to the recovery...
by Jon S. Blackman
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Among the New Deal programs that transformed American life in the 1930s was legislation known as the Indian New Deal, whose centerpiece was the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) of 1934**.** Oddly, much of that law did not apply to Native residents of Oklahoma, even though a large percentage of the...