University Of Oklahoma Press imprint: 604 books
All for the King's Shilling
The British Soldier under Wellington, 1808–1814
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The British troops who fought so successfully under the Duke of Wellington during his Peninsular Campaign against Napoleon have long been branded by the duke’s own words—“scum of the earth”—and assumed to have been society’s ne’er-do-wells or criminals who enlisted to escape justice....
Free to Be Mohawk
Indigenous Education at the Akwesasne Freedom School
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Akwesasne territory straddles the U.S.-Canada border in upstate New York, Ontario, and Quebec. In 1979, in the midst of a major conflict regarding self-governance, traditional Mohawks there asserted their sovereign rights to self-education. Concern over the loss of language and culture and clashes...
Guibert
Father of Napoleon's Grande Armée
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
If there was one man, other than Napoleon himself, who determined the course of the Napoleonic Wars, it was Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Guibert, the foremost military theorist in France from 1770 to his death in 1790. Taking in the full scope of the times, from the ideas of the Enlightenment...
by Rajeshwari Dutt
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Andrés Canché became the cacique, or indigenous leader, of Cenotillo, Yucatán, in January 1834. By his retirement in 1864, he had become an expert politician, balancing powerful local alliances with his community’s interests as early national Yucatán underwent major political and social shifts....
Diminishing the Bill of Rights
Barron v. Baltimore and the Foundations of American Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
The modern effort to locate American liberties, it turns out, began in the mud at the bottom of Baltimore harbor. John Barron Jr. and John Craig sued the city for damages after Baltimore’s rebuilt drainage system diverted water and sediment into the harbor, preventing large ships from tying up at...
by W. C. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Driving across the country in the early twentieth century was high adventure. In 1925 Willie Chester Clark and his family piled into a modified Chevrolet touring car, affectionately named Leaping Lena, and took off for the West. Clark’s account of the journey will acquaint readers with cross-country...
Titan
The Art of British Power in the Age of Revolution and Napoleon
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
When the leaders of the French Revolution executed Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in 1793, they sent a chilling message to the hereditary ruling orders in Europe. Believing that monarchy anywhere presented a threat to democratic rule in France, the leaders of the revolution declared war on European...
Health of the Seventh Cavalry
A Medical History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
With its charismatic leader George Custer and its memorable encounters with Plains Indians, including the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Seventh Cavalry serves as the iconic regiment in the post–Civil War U.S Army. Voluminous written documentation as well as archaeological and osteological research...
by Charles J. Esdaile
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
In the iconography of the Peninsular War of 1808–14, women are well represented—both as heroines, such as Agustina Zaragosa Domenech, and as victims, whether of starvation or of French brutality. In history, however, with its focus on high politics and military operations, they are invisible—a...
by Patti Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
When eleven-year-old Tommy Thompson arrived at a government-run Indian boarding school in 1915, it seemed a last resort for the youngster. Instead, it turned out to be the first step toward a life dedicated to helping others. Thompson went on to become a star athlete and football coach—a Cherokee...
Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City
Re-creating the Frontier West
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
“Shootin’—Lynchin’—Hangin’,” announces the advertisement for Tombstone’s Helldorado Days festival. Dodge City’s Boot Hill Cemetery sports an “authentic hangman’s tree.” Not to be outdone, Deadwood’s Days of ’76 celebration promises “miners, cowboys, Indians, cavalry,...
Moroni and the Swastika
Mormons in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
While Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist government was persecuting Jews and Jehovah’s Witnesses and driving forty-two small German religious sects underground, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continued to practice unhindered. How some fourteen thousand Mormons not only survived...
by Dick Harmon, Melissa A. Connor, Richard A. Fox Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Ever since the Custer massacres on June 25, 1876, the question has been asked: What happened - what REALLY happened - at the Battle of the Little Bighorn? We know some of the answers, because half of George Armstrong Custer’s Seventh Cavalry - the men with Major Marcus Reno and Captain Frederick...
Valley of the Guns
The Pleasant Valley War and the Trauma of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
In the late 1880s, Pleasant Valley, Arizona, descended into a nightmare of violence, murder, and mayhem. By the time the Pleasant Valley War was over, eighteen men were dead, four were wounded, and one was missing, never to be found. Valley of the Guns explores the reasons for the violence that engulfed...