Joe Schiller

Ethanol - University of Oklahoma Press Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years—good or bad for the environment? a big-ag boon o...

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.
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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.

A cover proof of a book's front and black jacket and flaps.

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."

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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!

Rhino Tanks and Sticky Bombs - University of Oklahoma Press Coming of age during the Great Depression, the American boys who fought in World War II had, through necessity, developed a unique brand of technological res...

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...

If I know anything about publishing, I know to thank you for all the work we didn't see you do to shepherd this along! It's going to be beautiful.

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.

Lots of Hold Steady, I hope.

🎶 "Your little hoodrat friend got me high, though
We were 17 and stuck up, up in Osseo.
She said 'it's funny how true love
gets troubled by still water [Stillwater?]
and washed up in the Mississippi River'...

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.

Big Skies, White Hoods - University of Oklahoma Press In the early 1920s, amid rising anti-Catholic sentiment and hysteria generated by World War I, the reconstituted Ku Klux Klan found new footing in many state...

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...

Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels [Manuel, Jeffrey T., Rogers, Thomas D.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels

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!
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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)

Environmental History's Futures series - University of Oklahoma Press Series Description This series is about historical actors who imagined and demanded alternative futures from the margins of

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:
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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 Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

"...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.

A screenshot of the title page for a book titled Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels

Working on page proofs for ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS, forthcoming later this year!
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Colonial Intimacies - University of Oklahoma Press “A gem of historical scholarship!”—Vicki L. Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America How do intimate relatio...

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New to this platform, so just an introduction…

The University of Oklahoma Press Since 1928 the University of Oklahoma Press has gained international recognition as an outstanding publisher of the history and cultures of the American West, Indigenous Studies, Chicana/Chicano Studi...

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.

A book on a bookstore shelf titled "Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy."

And other fine university press books illustrating the discerning taste of my local bookstore. A treasure!

A book on a bookstore shelf titled "North Country: Essays on the Upper Midwest and Regional Identity," with a cover image of Palisade Head on Lake Superior under the Northern Lights.

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.