University Of Oklahoma Press: 604 books
Forty-Seventh Star
New Mexico's Struggle for Statehood
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
New Mexico was ceded to the United States in 1848, at the end of the war with Mexico, but not until 1912 did President William Howard Taft sign the proclamation that promoted New Mexico from territory to state. Why did New Mexico’s push for statehood last sixty-four years? Conventional wisdom has...
by William A. Dobak, Thomas D. Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Black soldiers first entered the regular army of the United States in the summer of 1866. While their segregated regiments served in the American West for the following three decades, the promise of Reconstruction gave way to the repressiveness of Jim Crow. But black men found a degree of equality...
Worthy Opponents
William T. Sherman and Joseph E. Johnston—Antagonists in War, Friends in Peace
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Worthy Opponents tells the parallel stories of Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston and Union general William Tecumseh Sherman. Their armies clashed repeatedly, so it was only natural for these two commanding offers to become adversaries. Yet, as the war continued, Johnston and Sherman came to respect...
by James L. Haley
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
In the decades preceding the Civil War, few figures in the United States were as influential or as controversial as Sam Houston. In Sam Houston, James L. Haley explores Houston’s momentous career and the complex man behind it. Haley’s fifteen years of research and writing have produced possibly...
Maya Lords and Lordship
The Formation of Colonial Society in Yucatán, 1350–1600
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
When the Spanish arrived in Yucatán in 1526, they found an established political system based on lordship, a system the Spanish initially integrated into their colonial rule, but ultimately dismantled. In Maya Lords and Lordship, Sergio Quezada builds on the work of earlier scholars and reexamines...
Napoleon and Berlin
The Franco-Prussian War in North Germany, 1813
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
At a time when Napoleon needed all his forces to reassert French dominance in Central Europe, why did he fixate on the Prussian capital of Berlin? Instead of concentrating his forces for a decisive showdown with the enemy, he repeatedly detached large numbers of troops, under ineffective commanders,...
by Bobette Perrone, Victoria Krueger, H. Henrietta Stockel
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
The stories of ten women healers form the core of this provocative journey into cultural healing methods utilized by women. In a truly grass-roots project, the authors take the reader along to listen to the voices of Native American medicine women, Southwest Hispanic curanderas, and women physicians...
Drug Politics
Dirty Money and Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Drug Politics is an enlightening new book by a man who knows this disturbing and dangerous subject. A former United States ambassador to Peru, David C. Jordan has testified before the U.S. Senate and House Foreign Relations committees and has consulted with various government security organizations....
The Texas Rangers in Transition
From Gunfighters to Criminal Investigators, 1921–1935
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
***Official Texas Ranger Bicentennial™ Publication ***
Newly rich in oil money, and all the trouble it could buy, Texas in the years following World War I underwent momentous changes—and those changes propelled the transformation of the state’s storied Rangers. Charles H. Harris III...
by Charles B. Heiser
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Humankind has had a long and intimate association with gourds, and one of them, the bottle gourd, or calabash, may have been man's first cultivated plant. Although grown in the United States today primarily as ornamentals, in other parts of the world gourds have many other important uses. With charming...
The Roseto Story
An Anatomy of Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Roseto is a small Italian-American community in east-central Pennsylvania. This fifteen-year study drawing on medical histories, physical examinations, and laboratory tests, compared a large sample of Rosetans to inhabitants of two neighboring communities, Bangor and Nazareth, and followed up this...
American Indian Education
A History
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
In this comprehensive history of American Indian education in the United States from colonial times to the present, historians and educators Jon Reyhner and Jeanne Eder explore the broad spectrum of Native experiences in missionary, government, and tribal boarding and day schools. This up-to-date...
High Country
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
The packer’s business is guiding mule trains into mountains where wagons can’t travel. It’s a life of danger, long days, and low pay. But for those wedded to the wilderness and inaccessible high country, it is the only life there is.
During the Great Depression, young Ty Hardin is sent...
Ernest L. Blumenschein
The Life of an American Artist
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Few who appreciate the visual arts or the American Southwest can behold the masterpieces Sangre de Cristo Mountains or Haystack, Taos Valley, 1927 or Bend in the River, 1941 and come away without a vivid image burned into memory. The creator of these and many other depictions of the Southwest and...