Out Now! "Hungry Oklahoma: Confronting Poverty and Food Insecurity" by Robert Lee Maril is a critical exploration of the myths about and causes of poverty in Oklahoma. www.oupress.com/978080619656...

Thrilled to see @oupress.bsky.social in the bookstore of the National Museum of African American History and Culture—especially when it is represented by Amina Hassan's superb biography, "Loren Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist."

Just in time for #SMH2026, a new review of SKI, CLIMB, FIGHT in On Point: The Journal of Army History! Read the review here ➡️ armyhistory.org/ski-climb-fi...

I have no clue how or why Amazon's algorithms do what they do, but the hardcover of _Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels_ is currently on sale for 20 percent off. www.amazon.com/Ethanol-Hemi...

Dr. David Levy was posthumously inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame on March 19. Lynne Levy accepted on his behalf. Professor Emeritus and longtime OU History Department Chair Rob Griswold spoke on Dr. Levy’s impact. Thank you to the OHS for honoring Dr. Levy!

Beer & Books & Campaigns & Commanders Friday, 3/27 at 3pm at #SMH2026 in the exhibits area. A colleague and I will be handing out tickets for free beer & wine at the @oupress.bsky.social exhibit to celebrate the legendary C&C series. Come say hello!

Check it out! @science.org calls The Isthmian Script: Deciphering Ancient Mesoamerican Writing by Martha J. Macri "intriguing"! Find out why ➡ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Good morning, Sooner Nation 🌷☀️

Out Now! "The Isthmian Script: Deciphering Ancient Mesoamerican Writing" by Martha J. Macri calls for a new generation of investigators into the Isthmian script and inspires a renewed interest in the process of script invention among early Mesoamerican peoples. www.oupress.com/978080619609...

UDL at Scale Pre-Orders Now OPEN! Pre-orders for my new @oupress.bsky.social book, *UDL at Scale,* are open at www.oupress.com/978080619706.... Get one for yourself . . . heck, at only $20, get one for your boss, too. Please share this to your networks, and thank you!

If you can't join us in person for this one, we actually feel sorry for you 🍻. BUT! You can still browse our virtual booth during the conference. Use promo code '18SMH26' at checkout and save 30% off select titles. Shop Here ➡️ www.oupress.com/2026-smh/

Out Now! "Mollie Brumley's Civil War: Surviving the Guerrilla War in Arkansas" by Theodore Catton is an unprecedented picture of the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi West and a remarkable coming-of-age story shaped by the fight against slavery. www.oupress.com/978080619650...

Save the Date: The Pre-Columbian Society to Host Martha Macri: "The Isthmian Script: A New Approach to Decipherment" March 14th at 1:30pm! More information here ➡️ precolumbian.org/next-meeting/

NEW UDL BOOK Coming August 1! Okay, friends, I'm excited. *UDL at Scale* has a cover & an August 2026 release date. Watch for the @oupress.bsky.social pre-order web site to go live at the end of March. Who wants one? And who wants me to visit or give a webinar?

Let’s go #OLA2026! @oupress.bsky.social is ready for you! Can’t join us in person? You can still shop our booth. Use promo code 18OLA26 at oupress.com and get 40% off your order!

Save the Date, Chicago!

It's been a blast showing off books in the @oupress.bsky.social "Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed" series at the Transformative Learning Conference at UCO today. Many thanks to @thetattooedprof.bsky.social for modeling with a complete set of books in the series so far!

Please join us in congratulating these recent OU Press authors as they have been selected as finalists for the Foreword INDIES Book Awards! View the complete list here ➡️ www.forewordreviews.com/articles/art...

Teaching doesn't always go as planned—and that's okay. Join our 4-week author-facilitated reading of Snafu Edu with Jessamyn Neuhaus @geekypedagogy.bsky.social. Evidence-based strategies for when things go wrong in the classroom. Feb 17-Mar 16 | $15 | www.perusall.com/engage #HigherEd #Teaching

Out Now! "After the Theft of the Sacred: Experiential Religion in Indigenous Writing" by Reginald Dyck shows how Native communities and characters use their lived religions to make sense of an increasingly fragmented and urban world. www.oupress.com/978080619651...

Let's talk book history! Next week I will give a talk on the history of @oupress.bsky.social (coauthored with Tom Kahle), "Book Publishing and the American West, Then & Now." It's part of the American West & the Humanities series at OU. Wednesday, 3/4, 1pm @ the Charles Russell Center.

New book review: Ameen on Heppler, Jason A.: _Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism_. University of Oklahoma Press, 2024. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20142443

Out Now! "Reasons We Fight: Tejanos and American Wars, 1836-1972" by Alex Mendoza documents the circumstances that shaped military attitudes among Mexican Texans, along with their shifting ideas about identity, community, nationalism—and America itself. www.oupress.com/978080619654...

Read over winter break! So good! 🩷💙🩷

Publishing job, ICYMI: We are looking for an acquisitions coordinator at @oupress.bsky.social to support our authors and acquisitions editors! It is a good entry point for a career in book publishing. Job is on-site in Norman. Questions? [email protected] Apply here: ou.taleo.net/careersectio...

We're Hiring! OUP is looking for our next acquisitions coordinator to support our acquisitions editors and authors. Sound like something you would be interested in? Apply today! This is a great position to get into the world of academic publishing. ➡️ ou.taleo.net/careersectio...

"Bridget's Gambit: A Saga of Family Enterprise in Gold Rush California" by Craig S. Harwood is the spirited biography of an audacious, persistent woman which brings to the forefront the largely unheralded contributions of women in the forming of California statehood. www.oupress.com/978080619655...

Quintard Taylor left an indelible impression on the OU Press team and he will be greatly missed. We are honored to share with you this information regarding his Celebration of Life service. Read more here: blackpast.org

We spy A LIFE ON FIRE by a Connie Cronley! Don’t miss out on the Tulsa Women’s Expo this weekend! General Admission is $7 at the Box Office on Expo days, or 2 for 1 with an online ticket special. Children 12 and under FREE! Learn more here: magiccitybooks.com/events/44962...

Let's talk about things going wrong in teaching & learning! Join the #SnafuEdu (@oupress.bsky.social) @perusall.com book club, 2/17-3/16. Register: www.perusall.com/engage-book-....

Out Now! "Blood Vessels: Vigilante Violence in the American West" by Patrick T. Hoehne reframes the prevailing understanding of both the individual incidents of violent action and the larger history of vigilante violence in the antebellum United States. www.oupress.com/978080619610...

🚨New Episode Alert🚨 Kicking off Black History Month with Prof. Sara Gallagher (@sgallagher12.bsky.social) of Durham College and her book "Black Wests: Reshaping Race and Place in Popular Culture" (@oupress.bsky.social 2025). writingwestwardpodcast.podbean.com/e/083-sara-g...

We're celebrating Black History Month at OUP! We've got a featured list of new and legacy titles on our homepage that you won't want to miss exploring this February. www.oupress.com

Tonight! OUP authors Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer will talk about their book "Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery" via Zoom hosted by the State Library of Kansas. Register here ➡️ calendar.library.ks.gov/event/158036...

Next up is OUP author Tricia Bertram Gallant talking to the hosts of The Higher Edtech Podcast about "The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI" that she co-authored with David A. Rettinger. This is not one to miss! thehigheredtechpodcast.com/episode/s7e1...

Listen In! We've got some new podcast notifications to get you through this Wednesday. First up, OUP author @flowerdarby.bsky.social talks about her new book "The Joyful Online Teacher: Finding Our Fizz in Asynchronous Classes" on the Centering Centers podcast! open.spotify.com/episode/2mFC...

OU-NORMAN URGENT: The OU Norman campus will close beginning at 12 PM Friday, January 23, 2026. In-person classes canceled; no remote work.

OUP author Jon Lauck gathered with others at the AHA26 Conference last week to discuss The Dimensions of the Midwestern History Revival. You can watch the conference panel here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHq8...

Looking forward to Zooming in to do the keynote at this teaching event tomorrow, and talking all things snafu-related with Northern Illinois University faculty. #SnafuEdu @oupress.bsky.social www.niu.edu/citl/program...

Senior Acquisition Editor, Alessandra Jacobi-Tamulevich, is at the Society for Classical Studies annual conference! Can't meet her in person? You can visit our virtual booth and take advantage of the conference discount on select titles. Shop now and receive 30% off! www.oupress.com/2025-society...

"Eaton’s lived experiences gave her an intimate and firsthand perspective of what Cherokees went through in the late 1800s and early 1900s as she wrote her book." www.cherokeephoenix.org/entertainmen...

Attention all AUPresses members: The 2026 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show is now open for your gorgeous and creative entries! View the Call for Entries on the AUPresses Design website and submit materials by January 12, 2026: design.up.hcommons.org/

The forthcoming "A Naturalist's Guide to Oklahoma" looks to be particularly interesting. #Booksky www.oupress.com/978080619674...

Soar Into Spring! Our Spring/Summer 2026 catalog is now available. Browse the catalog here ➡️ www.oupress.com/spring-summe...

Out Now! "A History of the Cherokee Nation" by Rachel Caroline Eaton and edited by David Berry, Martha Berry and Patricia Dawson. www.oupress.com/978080619606...

Check out Zoe Brimberry's review of Catharine Melin-Moser's "When Montana Outraced the East: The Reign of Western Thoroughbreds, 1886-1900," published in 2025 by @oupress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #animalhist www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Highlight of my Cyber Monday: Spotting a title published by @oupress.bsky.social in 1973 turned face-out at Full Circle Books. "The Secret of Sherwood Forest" is a true story from World War II of Oklahoma roughnecks that helped England jumpstart an oil field desperately needed for the war effort.

How many series editors oversee the publication of more than 80 extraordinary books? Hats off to Greg Urwin for an extraordinary run as editor of our "Campaigns & Commanders" military history series. We look forward to working with Dr. Michael Leggiere, who will steward the series going forward!

OUP News: Greg Urwin has retired as editor of the Campaigns & Commanders series; Michael Leggiere will step up as the new editor. Read more here: www.oupress.com/search-resul...

Editor's Choice: 'Empowered: A Woman Faculty of Color's Guide to Teaching and Thriving' by Chavella T. Pittman, who offers scholars expert guidance and practical strategies from experience. www.newpages.com/blog/books/n...