University Of Oklahoma Press imprint: 604 books
Mapping the Four Corners
Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists under the direction of Ferdinand V. Hayden entered the Four Corners area for what they thought would be a calm summer’s work completing a previous survey. Their accomplishments would go down in history as one of the great American surveying...
by Sarah C. Melville
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Backed by an unparalleled military force, Sargon II outwitted and outfought powerful competitors to extend Assyrian territory and secure his throne. As Sarah C. Melville shows through a detailed analysis of each of his campaigns, the king used his army not just to conquer but also to ensure regional...
by Frederick Nolan
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Despite the countless books and films devoted to him, Billy the Kid remains one of the most elusive figures of the Old West. Now, award-winning western historian Frederick Nolan has scoured the published literature to offer this well-rounded compendium on the life and times of William H. Bonney.
The...
Do Facts Matter?
Information and Misinformation in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
A democracy falters when most of its citizens are uninformed or misinformed, when misinformation affects political decisions and actions, or when political actors foment misinformation—the state of affairs the United States faces today, as this timely book makes painfully clear. In Do Facts Matter?...
Brotherhood in Combat
How African Americans Found Equality in Korea and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
African American leaders such as Frederick Douglass long advocated military service as an avenue to equal citizenship for black Americans. Yet segregation in the U.S. armed forces did not officially end until President Harry Truman issued an executive order in 1948. What followed, at home and in the...
by Robert W. Patch
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
The history of relations between the Spanish and the Indians of colonial Central America, often oversimplified as a story of unending Spanish abuse, forms a complicated tapestry of economics and politics. Robert W. Patch’s even-handed study of the repartimiento de mercancías—the commercial dealings...
Indian Conquistadors
Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
The conquest of the New World would hardly have been possible if the invading Spaniards had not allied themselves with the indigenous population. This book takes into account the role of native peoples as active agents in the Conquest through a review of new sources and more careful analysis of known...
An Osage Journey to Europe, 1827–1830
Three French Accounts
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
In 1827 six Osage people—four men and two women—traveled to Europe escorted by three Americans. Their visit was big news in France, where three short publications about the travelers appeared almost immediately. Virtually lost since the 1830s, all three accounts are gathered, translated, and annotated...
Warrior Nations
The United States and Indian Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
During the century following George Washington’s presidency, the United States fought at least forty wars with various Indian tribes, averaging one conflict every two and a half years. Warrior Nations is Roger L. Nichols’s response to the question, “Why did so much fighting take place?” Examining...
The Size of the Risk
Histories of Multiple Use in the Great Basin
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
The Great Basin, a stark and beautiful desert filled with sagebrush deserts and mountain ranges, is the epicenter for public lands conflicts. Arising out of the multiple, often incompatible uses created throughout the twentieth century, these struggles reveal the tension inherent within the multiple...
by Ron J. Jackson Jr., Lee Spencer White
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
If we do in fact “remember the Alamo,” it is largely thanks to one person who witnessed the final assault and survived: the commanding officer’s slave, a young man known simply as Joe. What Joe saw as the Alamo fell, recounted days later to the Texas Cabinet, has come down to us in records and...
The Second Pearl Harbor
The West Loch Disaster, May 21, 1944
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
In May 1944, with American forces closing in on the Japanese mainland, the Fifth Fleet Amphibious Force was preparing to invade Saipan. Control of this island would put enemy cities squarely within range of the B-29 bomber. The navy had assembled a fleet of landing ship tanks (LSTs) in the West Loch...
The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux
Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2012
Black Elk of the Sioux has been recognized as one of the truly remarkable men of his time in the matter of religious belief and practice. Shortly before his death in August, 1950, when he was the "keeper of the sacred pipe," he said, "It is my prayer that, through our sacred pipe, and...
Lands of Promise and Despair
Chronicles of Early California, 1535–1846
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
This copious collection of reminiscences, reports, letters, and documents allows readers to experience the vast and varied landscape of early California from the viewpoint of its inhabitants. What emerges is not the Spanish California depicted by casual visitors—a culture obsessed with finery, horses,...