University of Oklahoma Press
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Harpsong: Volume 1
$21.95 Add to cartA love story about Dust Bowl heroes who didn’t leave for California
Harlan Singer, a harmonica-playing troubadour, shows up in the Thompson family’s yard one morning. He steals their hearts with his m
- Series: Oklahoma Stories & Storytellers #1
- Author: Askew, Rilla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 30 2009
- ISBN10: 806139285
- Language: English
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The Green Corn Rebellion
$21.95 Add to cartThese days, rural Oklahoma is the last place anybody would look for leftist revolutionaries, but in 1917 the area exploded into full-blown insurrection. The state’s tenant farmers, many of whom were S… [more below]
- Author: Cunningham, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0806140577
- Language: English
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The Mexican Flyboy: Volume 16
$21.95 Add to cartWhat if we could travel back in time to save our heroes from painful deaths? What if we could rewrite history to protect and reward the innocent victims of injustice? In Alfredo V饌’s daring new nove… [more below]
- Series: Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Am駻icas #16
- Author: Véa, Alfredo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0806187034
- Language: English
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Prize for the Fire
$26.95 Add to cartLincolnshire, 1537. Amid England’s religious turmoil, fifteen-year-old Anne Askew is forced to take her dead sister’s place in an arranged marriage. The witty, well-educated gentleman’s daughter is de… [more below]
- Author: Askew, Rilla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0806190728
- Language: English
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Indian School Days
$21.95 Add to cartThis book is the humorous, bitter-sweet autobiography of a Canadian Ojibwa who was taken from his family at age ten and placed in Jesuit boarding school in northern Ontario. It was 1939 when the feare… [more below]
- Series: Basil Johnson Titles
- Author: Johnston, Basil H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 15 1990
- ISBN10: 0806126108
- Language: English
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Behold the Walls: Commemorative Edition Volume 3
$26.95 Add to cartOn August 19, 1958, Clara Luper and thirteen Black youth walked into Katz Drug Store in Oklahoma City and sat down at the lunch counter. When they tried to order, they were denied service. As they sat… [more below]
- Series: Greenwood Cultural Center African Diaspora History and Culture
- Author: Luper, Clara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0806192798
- Language: English
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Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1921 Tulsa’s Greenwood District, known then as the nation’s “Black Wall Street,” was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the United States. But on May 31 of that year, a whi… [more below]
- Author: Krehbiel, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0806168714
- Language: English
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Containing History: How Cold War History Explains Us-Russia Relations
$34.95 Add to cartIn the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, with U.S.-Russia relations approaching a breaking point, this book provides a key to understanding how we got here. Specifically, Stephen … [more below]
- Author: Friot, Stephen P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0806191902
- Language: English
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Ghost Towns of Oklahoma
$24.95 Add to cartIn the past 150 years as many as two thousand Oklahoma hamlets, villages, towns, and even cities have bloomed and then died. Some have faded away, with not even a fallen chimney to mark their location
- Author: Morris, John W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 15 1978
- ISBN10: 0806114207
- Language: English
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Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History: Volume 174
$49.95 Add to cartThe Indian history of the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, and particularly of the Ohio Valley, is so complex that it can be properly clarified only with the visual aid of maps. Th
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback)
- Author: Tanner, Helen Hornbeck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 15 1987
- ISBN10: 0806120568
- Language: English
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Most American: Notes from a Wounded Place
$19.95 Add to cart2018 PEN America Literary Award Finalist!
In her first nonfiction collection, award-winning novelist Rilla Askew casts an unflinching eye on American history, both past and present. As she traverses- Author: Askew, Rilla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 08 2017
- ISBN10: 0806157178
- Language: English
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Techniques of the Selling Writer
$29.95 Add to cartTechniques of the Selling Writer provides solid instruction for people who want to write and sell fiction, not just to talk and study about it. It gives the background, insights, and specific procedur
- Author: Swain, Dwight V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: January 15 1981
- ISBN10: 0806111917
- Language: English
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Epic Mexico: A History from Its Earliest Times
$24.95 Add to cartSpanning the full breadth of Mexico’s long and storied past in one compact volume, Epic Mexico provides an unparalleled view of Mexican history, at once comprehensive, succinct, and consistently engag
- Author: Rugeley, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: August 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0806167076
- Language: English
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Building a House Divided: Slavery, Westward Expansion, and the Roots of the Civil War
$32.95 Add to cartBy the time Abraham Lincoln asserted in 1858 that the nation could not “endure permanently half slave and half free,” the rift that would split the country in civil war was well defined. The origins a… [more below]
- Author: Hyslop, Stephen G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0806192739
- Language: English
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The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History Volume 1
$39.95 Add to cartOn the evening of May 31, 1921, and in the early morning hours of June 1, several thousand white citizens and authorities violently attacked the African American Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma…. [more below]
- Series: Greenwood Cultural Center African Diaspora History and Culture
- Author: Hill, Karlos K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0806168560
- Language: English
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Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
$34.95 Add to cartThe massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forg… [more below]
- Author: Bagley, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 493
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0806136391
- Language: English
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Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School
$21.95 Add to cartA renowned activist recalls his childhood years in an Indian boarding school
Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable m
- Author: Fortunate Eagle, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 19 2010
- ISBN10: 080614114X
- Language: English
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Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait
$21.95 Add to cartJohn H. Holliday, D. D. S., better known as Doc Holliday, has become a legendary figure in the history of the American West. In Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait, Karen Holliday Tanner reveals the real
- Author: Tanner, Karen Holliday
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0806133201
- Language: English
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Tom Horn in Life and Legend
$24.95 Add to cartSome of the legendary gunmen of the Old West were lawmen, but more, like Billy the Kid and Jesse James, were outlaws. Tom Horn (1860-1903) was both. Lawman, soldier, hired gunman, detective, outlaw, a
- Author: Ball, Larry D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: July 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0806151757
- Language: English
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Beginning Cherokee
$34.95 Add to cartThis book, the first of its kind, teaches the rudiments of Cherokee, which is the native tongue of about 20,000 Americans, although most of those who speak it use it only as a second language. Cheroke
- Author: Holmes, Ruth Bradley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: January 15 1978
- ISBN10: 0806114630
- Language: English
