Bøger udgivet af University of Oklahoma Press

In this volume, more than a dozen contributors offer a unique perspective on the history of the Latter-day Saints. Contributors explore why the federal government wanted to reconstruct Latter-day Saints, when such efforts began, and how the initiatives compare with what happened with white Southerners and American Indians.

Drawing on the WCTU's national records as well as state and regional organizational newspaper accounts and official state histories, historian Thomas John Lappas unearths the story of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Indian country. His work reveals how Native American women embraced a type of social, economic, and political progress.

As American Indian communities face the new century, they look to the future armed with confidence in the indigenous perspectives that have kept them together. Five scholars in American Indian history, along with a tribal leader, show how understanding the past is the key to solving problems facing Indians today.

For decades, American schoolchildren have learned only a smattering of facts about Native American peoples, especially when it comes to service in the US military. In Warrior Spirit, Herman Viola sets the record straight by highlighting the military service of Native American soldiers and veterans in the US armed services.

However contested, western history is one of America's national origin stories that we turn to in times of upheaval. Dude ranches provide a tangible link from the real to the imagined past, and their popularity demonstrates how significant this link remains. This book tells their story-in all its familiar, eccentric, and often surprising detail.

This first full account of Amelia Stone Quinton (1833-1926) and the organisation she cofounded, the Women's National Indian Association, offers a nuanced insight into the intersection of gender, race, religion, and politics in our shared history.

By foregrounding Indigenous peoples as city makers and city dwellers, as agents and subjects of urbanization, the essays in this volume simultaneously highlight the impact of Indigenous people on urban places and the effects of urbanism on Indigenous people and politics.

The Chicano Movement of the 1960s and '70s, like so much of the period's politics, is best known for its radicalism. Less understood was the movement's moderate elements. This book presents the first full account of these more mainstream liberal activists-those who rejected the politics of protest and worked within the system.

In 1872 Thomas Russell unearthed the bones of an 83,000,000-year-old dinosaur in western Kansas. More than a century later, his great-granddaughter set out to retrace his forgotten expedition. Part detective history, part memoir, For Want of Wings is Jill Hunting's account of her journey into prehistory, national history, and family history.

With the Via crucis en mexicano as a starting point, John Schwaller explores the history of the development and spread of the Stations of the Cross, placing the devotion in the context of the Catholic Reformation and the Baroque, the two trends that exalted this type of religious expression.

In 'Cotton County', the first of the dual memoirs in The Land and the Days, acclaimed author Tracy Daugherty describes the forces that shape us: the 'rituals of our regions' and the family and friends who animate our lives and memories.

Until now, Romanian historians and survivors have served as almost the only chroniclers of the Holocaust in Transnistria. Goldenshteyn's account, based on interviews with Soviet-born relatives and other survivors, archival documents, and memoirs, is among the first full-length books to spotlight the Pechera camp.

As fundamental aspects of American citizenship and constitutionalism come under ever more pressure, and as the country's politics give way to divisive, partisan extremes, this book responds to the critical political challenge of our time: the need to return to some conception of shared principles as a basis for citizenship and governance.

As fundamental aspects of American citizenship and constitutionalism come under ever more pressure, and as the country's politics give way to divisive, partisan extremes, this book responds to the critical political challenge of our time: the need to return to some conception of shared principles as a basis for citizenship and governance.

Hugh Lenox Scott had a career unique in the history of the US military and the western frontier. This is the first book to tell the full story of this unlikely, self-avowed 'soldier of peace', whose career, stretching from Little Bighorn until after World War I, reflected profound historical changes.

Tells a powerful tale about the love and forgiveness that keep a modern Native American family together in Santa Rosa, California. First published in 1998, Watermelon Nights remains one of the few works of fiction to illuminate the experiences of urban Native Americans.

Analyses the Franciscans' engagement with native peoples, creole populations, the viceregal authorities, and the Spanish empire as a whole in order to offer a broad picture of Catholic evangelization in North America while keeping the Franciscans at the center of the story.

During the Great Depression, the Los Angeles area was rife with radical movements. Although many observers thought their ideas unworkable, even dangerous, Southern Californians voted for them by the tens of thousands. This book asks why.

In life and in death, fame and glory eluded Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779-1813). The ambitious young military officer and explorer was destined to live in the shadows of more famous contemporaries. This collection of thought-provoking essays rescues Pike from his undeserved obscurity.

Drawing on Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's own reports and on other sixteenth-century documents, both in English translation and the original Spanish, Varnum's lively narrative braids eyewitness testimony of events with historical interpretation benefiting from recent scholarship and archaeological investigation.

"[The authors] have created a history rich in synthesis and made all the more pleasing by a style that is crisp, occasionally ironic, always persuasive, and frequently eloquent...quite simply, the best history of the state available."--L.G. Moses, Oklahoma State University

The author of eighteen spellbinding detective novels set on the Navajo Nation, Tony Hillerman simultaneously transformed a traditional genre and unlocked the mysteries of the Navajo culture to an audience of millions. This book offers a balanced portrait of Hillerman's personal and professional life and provides a timely appreciation of his work.

In 1947, Bud Wilkinson was named OU's head football coach and became the architect of Oklahoma's meteoric rise from mediocrity to perennial powerhouse. Based on interviews with Wilkinson, former OU president George Cross, and former players, John Scott gives us the behind-the-scenes story of Wilkinson's years at the University of Oklahoma.

This timely study of how the Supreme Court building shapes Washington as a space and a place for political action and meaning yields a multidimensional view and deeper appreciation of the ways that our physical surroundings manifest who we are as a people and what we value as a society.

A vast and desolate region, the Texas-New Mexico borderlands have long been an ideal setting for intrigue and illegal dealings. This book takes us to the borderlands in the 1860s and 1870s for an in-depth look at Union-Confederate skullduggery amid the infamous Comanche-Comanchero trade in stolen Texas livestock.