Quintard Taylor was dedicated to studying Black people in the West — a field that often went unresearched, esp at the beginning of his research in the mid 1970s. Taylor’s work helped correct the narrative that the history of Black people in the West is insignificant. www.dailyuw.com/article/1353...

Thanks to Sue Retka Schill for inviting Tom Rogers and me onto the Homegrown Fuels podcast to talk about our book and the history of ethanol fuel. Fun conversation! youtu.be/wYpOz7CfiaA?...

If you're planing to spend the weekend preparing for the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Monday, but you just don't know enough about the taconite pellets that were in the ship's ill-fated hold, may I recommend a book for you? www.upress.umn.edu/978081669430... 🗃️

In 1992 my family went in the ditch and launched one of these, Dukes of Hazzard-style, off a road approach when my dad fell asleep at the wheel. Pretty rad in hindsight.

📣🌟 Come work with us! We're looking for a highly organized individual with strong communication skills and an enthusiastic mindset to serve as our next Publicity Manager! Learn more here ➡️ ou.taleo.net/careersectio...

Not sure how I missed this post, but I did not miss the book in my mail. Cheers @jeffmanuel.bsky.social !!!

Headed to WHA in ABQ? You know what to do (Reach out and schedule a meeting! See us at the @oupress.bsky.social table! Let me personally sell you books! Okay I just told you what to do, didn't I)

It's the official publication day for ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS. Want to know why the US turns 40 percent of the corn crop into fuel? How the US and Brazil became the world's two largest ethanol producers? Tom Rogers and I have answers. www.oupress.com/978080619601...

A real pinch-me moment to become an editor and be told I would work with Quintard on his series. Beyond the scholarship or BlackPast's incredible reach, what a human! You could feel his gracious chuckle through the phone.

My words, in print! Our service to the state and region is one of my favorite parts of working @oupress.bsky.social

Remembering Dr. David Levy. We are honored to have published him and will fondly remember him as a friend of the press.

This is the way.

If stylishly-written environmental history is your thing, the compulsively readable "Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels" by @jeffmanuel.bsky.social and Thomas D. Rogers is coming in October from @oupress.bsky.social. (Acquired for the press by @jschiller.bsky.social.)

A great conversation! Which reminds me of @patrickmccray.bsky.social's LA Review of Books piece from last year on @jasonheppler.org's "subversive view of Silicon Valley's history." lareviewofbooks.org/article/dirt...

Long time listener, first time caller. I was pleased to join @brendenwrensink.bsky.social to talk about my book. I hope you’ll give it a listen!

You know the "sticky bomb" Tom Hanks' character uses in Saving Private Ryan? There's some truth to that! Check out Bob Wettemann's readable new book, Rhino Tanks and Sticky Bombs: GI Ingenuity in World War II, from @oupress.bsky.social www.oupress.com/978080619539...

This is going to be so beautiful! And not just because I have an essay in it!

Absolutely love conference live-skeets of presentations when I can't attend, zooming in to spot people I know by the backs of their heads.

Here's the backstory to my manuscript (lol) on the ways they addressed (or didn't) the environmental challenges of mining. Tri-Staters continually raised a zombie miner--the hardy, white, American-born worker described below--to justify opposition to remediation efforts into the 21st century.

I see you, academics who link to your book at your university press publisher's site instead of the Big Bad Bookseller.

Putting this on my to-read pile, this looks fantastic.

Modern white nationalists weren't the first to view Montana as a refuge. Today you can learn about their forebears (and how they failed). So glad to have worked with Chris Erickson on this history you can use @oupress.bsky.social. www.oupress.com/978080619537...

With a cover and a listing on Amazon, it's official. ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS will be published in October by the University of Oklahoma Press. Pre-orders now available! www.amazon.com/Ethanol-Hemi... 🗃️ 💡🔌🌽🇧🇷

Tomorrow. Stop by, say 'hi,' and let's talk about EH around the OU Press table in the book exhibit. (And we're here: @oupress.bsky.social)

Looking ahead all the way to next week? 🫠 I'll be taking the bike-tour field trip at ASEH in Pittsburgh, thank you very much. Let me know if you've got a project on Public Lands, the West, or that might be a fit for this great growing series: www.oupress.com/environmenta...

Hey historians! If you'll be in Chicago for OAH this week and want to throw around ideas about the West, environment, or sports, reach out! My email address is the envy of our university president, athletic director, and everyone else named Joe at OU. www.oupress.com/joe-schiller/

"...the senior manager felt it was 'really important for [Meta] to get books ASAP, as 'books are actually more important than web data.'" AI developers knew the books we publish were essential to "training" their bots. They just didn't want to pay authors or publishers.

Working on page proofs for ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS, forthcoming later this year! 🗃️ 💡🔌

www.oupress.com/978080615904... New to this platform, so just an introduction…

Been thinking about buying Pedagogy of Kindness, or any of the other books in the series? 40% off in the U of OK holiday sale! Use code 18HLDY24 at checkout! www.oupress.com

Including one great essay on @jasonheppler.org's OU Press book, Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism.

Me trying to figure out a hockey-and-climate pitch about the Great Lakes...

This is going to be a beautiful book. I'm honored to have a chapter in it on Minnesotan Meridel Le Sueur's writing about the zinc mining town of Picher, Oklahoma.

The news from Detroit Lakes: went to the local bookstore last night and saw a book with my name in it. I assume that will never get old.

Here's one of them--about how grassroot activists confronted a corporation aiming to operate an open-pit mine inside a wilderness. (Spoiler: there is no mine today.) It might be a good time to read about plucky activists. I'm honored this won the Hal Rothman Prize. www.oupress.com/978080616501...

For placing behind a taxidermied three-legged wolf in my town's list of most famous residents, just ahead of NFL pro-bowler Adam Thielen.

University of Oklahoma Press, Harvard Education Press & Open Press at University of Sussex really #StepUP in education. Check out these & other outstanding university press work in the #UPWeek Gallery: https://bit.ly/3BKu9Pi#StepUP#UPWeek#ReadUP

Whoa, new followers. I acquire books for a dynamite new series with @profloumoore.bsky.social, Victoria Jackson, and @noahcohan.bsky.social. If it looks like something for you, contact us. I like to think critically about the worlds of hockey and youth sports, too. www.oupress.com/power-play-t...

We still need to turn this book cover into a t-shirt for the western history crowd.

JD Vance invokes a mythical American West ("built by frontiersmen who conquered the wilderness"). Time for a Richard White classic—It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own, from U of Oklahoma Press—on the AmWest as reliant on federal government + extractive economy. www.oupress.com/978080612567...

Myself along with several other outstanding environmental historians annotated sections of Project 2025, placing its environmental messages and proposals within their larger political and historical contexts. I hope you'll give it a read and share it widely. 🗃️📗

See you *This week*!

I'll be with a bunch of OU Press colleagues at the Western History Association annual meeting next week, held jointly w/ the Southern History Association this year. If you're connecting the West and South in interesting ways, Oklahoma seems a mighty fine place to tell that story. You know the drill.

"We coulda done this a month ago," my dad grumbled yesterday into the 36-mph northwesterly gusts. That's a key part of upper midwestern winter prep.

Waiting for Tim Walz to post "Aurora Borealis through your new iPhone doesn't count. Sorry. You gotta go farther north than that, those colors just aren't right."

I wrote a history of Silicon Valley: how it became the place it became, how people responded to its urban and environmental changes, and how tech ruined the water and people’s health.

Historians: check this out not only for the CFP for next year’s ATxH conference, but also for the new Journal of Texas History. So exciting to see all of this taking shape. www.alliancefortexashistory.org

Check out @adamquinn.bsky.social's review of @jasonheppler.org's "Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism," published in 2024 by University of Oklahoma Press; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envtech #histSTM 🖥️🏙️🔌 www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

New book review: Quinn on Heppler, Jason A.: _Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism_. University of Oklahoma Press, 2024. Published by H-Environment. Read here: https://networks.h-net.org/node/20045434

I am pleased to share a CFP for an edited volume, Decolonizing the Campus, edited by myself and @llassabe.bsky.social. Please reach out if you have any questions.