"The police scanner is the exposed nerve of a small-town newspaper." —Craig Garnett, "Uvalde's Darkest Hour"

The little details in the sculpture are AMAZING!

Was there Sunday and happened to see one of the participants standing by her likeness. Ms Betty Germany was 17 years old when she was a part of the sit-in. I believe her mother and Ms Luper were sisters.

Clara Luper National Sit-In Plaza, Oklahoma City.

As ‘The Lowdown’ wraps up, we talked to Sterlin Harjo about noir, skepticism, telling the truth about Oklahoma, and THAT land run scene: thepickup.com/sterlin-harj...

Amid government overreach, economic precarity & plain misinformation, the academy’s responsibility to invest in the infrastructure of knowledge & career advancement provided by university presses is even more imperative. Read Executive Director Peter Berkery's full letter: https://bit.ly/47HnLF3

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A little weekend reading inspired by @cjdenial.bsky.social's book " A Pedagogy of Kindness"! @timeshighered.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/highe...

"The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and outrage of what man has done to do it, and poignantly to let people know." —from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Nobel lecture

Oklahoma City, as seen from the patio of O Bar, a rooftop bar in Midtown.

Thousands were in downtown OKC to dedicate a new plaza honoring Clara Luper and the 1958 Katz Drug sit-in that propelled the local civil rights movement. | Zoe Elrod was there and reports: freepressokc.com/sit-in-site-...

A new post, somewhat different from my usual themes: my experiences with independent scholarship, or my very long answer to what I do for work open.substack.com/pub/beyondth...

"And when the old truth is told to us again, we do not remember that we once possessed it." —from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Nobel lecture

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Listen In! This installment of Between the Lines, explores three teaching moves from @geekypedagogy.bsky.social's book "SNAFU Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom". www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLZT...

Amazing how the mere definition of a scientific term can send a chill up your spine. From Daniel H. Wilson's novel "Hole in the Sky."

I am happy that Will Klein will get a World Series ring.

Tis the season when you can get great books (as great gifts) at a great price! Our holiday sale is running on our site today through January 31st, 2026. Use code UTXGIFTS at checkout for 40% off print books and 50% off ebooks. 🎁 #booksale #holidaysale #booksky utpress.utexas.edu/h...

@betsyfriauf.bsky.social and I will be discussing our book “The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas” tomorrow (Saturday) at Deep Vellum Books in Dallas at 2 p.m. do214.com/events/2025/...

Refreshingly old-fashioned to hear the kids shouting out Blue Jays-Dodgers updates learned from each house they trick-or-treat.

So many yards with great Halloween decorations, but somehow the empty houses with lights turned off are the spookiest.

Even Zoom is getting very deep into Halloween.

Three more exhumations Thursday in Race Massacre graves search at Oaklawn Cemetery tulsaworld.com/news/local/r...

***David J. Weber Prize Winner*** Congratulations to IEHS Executive Board member @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social for receiving the David J. Weber Prize from the Western History Association for his Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship!

Strategy for a police investigator: "If you can't get the criminal rattled, put him at ease." —Georges Simenon, "Maigret at the Gai-Moulin"

FYI1: The superb webinar "Turning your Dissertation into a Book" is up! FYI2: It's the 1st for "Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series" co-sponsored by @aupresses.bsky.social (HT, Faculty Outreach Committee) and hosted by Rutgers CMSI. #ReadUP #PublishUP www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SST...

Share the news... OSU Libraries & Press is seeking a Director for the Oregon State University Press! See the detailed job description at jobs.oregonstate.edu/posting.... Please reach out to us if you have any questions about the position, OSU, or life in Oregon! ☔❤️☔ #OregonStateUniversity #ApplyNow

Big news: our longtime director is retiring and we're on the hunt for a successor (never a replacement!). Pros: we're a small, collegial team dedicated to publishing important regional and scholarly work; Oregon is a great place to live. Con: some might consider my interest in goats excessive.

"But the truth, put so baldly, was no longer quite the truth." —Georges Simenon, "Maigret at the Gai-Moulin"

Love to see student journalists writing critically about AI in academia. From Sarah Naccarato in Chatham University’s excellent paper, The Communiqué: chathamcommunique.com/11760/opinio...

Brits on Americans: "One of the surprising habits of the boys was mounting their bicycles from the left side instead of the right as is the common practice of the English." —Guy & Grace Woodward, "The Secret of Sherwood Forest: Oil Production in England During World War II"

Out Now! "Mormon Settler Colonialism: Inventing the Lamanite" by Elise Boxer. www.oupress.com/978080619604...

Out Now! "The California Camera Club: Collective Visions in the Making of the American West" by Carolin Görgen. www.oupress.com/978080619603...

kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700636037/ Please buy my book. Since I’m unemployed and all.

I rarely let myself celebrate my wins (always pushing towards what's next). But getting the paperback copy of By The First We Carry in the mail it all hit me. I looked at that first page and thought, “damn, I did that.”

An irritable visiting American observed "that the British custom of morning and afternoon teas was doing more to stop the British army than Hitler and his generals had been able to." —Guy and Grace Woodward, "The Secret of Sherwood Forest: Oil Production in England During World War II"

An especially cinematic moment in this kid fall baseball season: a runner stealing home, and blowing a bubblegum bubble that grew bigger and bigger as he approached home plate.

"To keep the Air Forces operating a single day during World War II required fourteen times as much gasoline as was shipped to Europe for all purposes in the First World War." —Guy and Grace Woodward, "The Secret of Sherwood Forest: Oil Production in England During World War II"

Now you can listen to Cheyenne’s ‘I Am Haunted, I Am Alive (Deluxe)’ on streaming services for the first time. Includes ‘Cheyenne Songs’, a companion album with over 20 covers by friends of the band like John Moreland, BRONCHO, Samantha Crain and more: music.apple.com/us/album/i-a...

"Contemporaries marveled at the speed with which Buffalo Bill's Wild West show could travel, build, and take down its arena, so it became a symbol of technological modernity as well." —Emily Burns, "Transnational Frontiers: The American West in France"

"One cannot understand America until one has seen it in Paris." —a Canadian art critic in 1891 on the work of American artists in France, quoted in Emily Burns, "Transnational Frontiers: The American West in France"

Class plans unravel. Tech fails. Lectures flop. Students stumble. Join me for an Oct. 30 webinar exploring how to navigate missteps, mistakes, and professorial faceplants with calm, clarity, and resilience. RSVP now: bit.ly/3W6XV7Z

Watching "The Lowdown" and thinking what Sterlin Harjo does well is writing minor characters.

The 19th century French painter Rosa Bonheur: "She achieved notoriety for obtaining a permit to dress in pants in order to paint animals in slaughterhouses more comfortably and successfully." —Emily Burns, "Transnational Frontiers: The American West in France"

If you like talking up books, @oupress.bsky.social has a job opening for a publicity manager! We have an extraordinary backlist plus superb forthcoming titles in the pipeline. Maybe YOU could help sell the sizzle of these steaks? Job details and how to apply here: ou.taleo.net/careersectio...

A girls basketball team in Oklahoma City forfeited its district championship earlier this year after the coach verified that a scoring error had incorrectly crowned them as winners. Now, the team is receiving national attention for that decision.

If you like talking up books, @oupress.bsky.social has a job opening for a publicity manager! We have an extraordinary backlist plus superb forthcoming titles in the pipeline. Maybe YOU could help sell the sizzle of these steaks? Job details and how to apply here: ou.taleo.net/careersectio...

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"By the turn of the century, there were so many U.S. art students in Paris that one critic defined them as their own 'genus.'" —Emily Burns, "Transnational Wests: The American West in France"

Saw Bono and The Edge accept the 2025 Woody Guthrie Prize for U2 on Tuesday at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa. I'd also been in Oklahoma exploring Guthrie's cultural impact for most of this year. Funny how things turn into stories that are up @rollingstone.com now. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...