Joe Schiller

Remembering Quintard Taylor: Beloved professor, founder of BlackPast.org Remembering Quintard Taylor: Beloved professor, founder of BlackPast.org

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...

YouTube video by Ethanol Producer Magazine Special EPM Podcast Series hosted by Sue Retka Schill featuring Tom Rogers and Jeff Manuel

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?...

America's Folklorist - University of Oklahoma Press Folklorist, writer, editor, regionalist, cultural activist—Benjamin Albert Botkin (1901–1975) was an American intellectual who made a mark on the twentie...

He authored the first book ever published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 1928! @oupress.bsky.social

Also of interest: www.oupress.com/978080614111...

Taconite Dreams Winner of the Midwestern History Association's 2016 Hamlin Garland Prize The Iron Range earned its name honestly: it was once among the world’s richest ...

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...
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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...

You really know how to play up the magic of making books!

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)

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.
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.

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."

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!

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!
www.amazon.com/Ethanol-Hemi...
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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:
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/