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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

*Chanting* BELT REVIVALS! BELT REVIVALS! BELT REVI

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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This interview was such a joy to do! Please listen when you have a chance:

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Flying over the North Sea this morning, I caught a glimpse of some offshore platforms which dot the seascape. It made me think about what is living on/around them and how that more-than-human life has mattered in decommissioning policy. That’s what my forthcoming book Reefs or Rubbish is about.

Blue ocean. White clouds. Shape of an offshore platform below & to left of single cloud

Blue ocean. White clouds. An offshore platform visible below clouds in image. Plane engine on right

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University of Oklahoma Press @oupress.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Tonight! Come learn about Dr. Priscilla Crawford's new book, "A Naturalist's Guide to Oklahoma." Dr. Crawford is an ecologist and biogeographer with the Oklahoma Biological Survey. Hosted by @sierraclub.org Oklahoma act.sierraclub.org/events/detai...

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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

🎵 Save big money, you save big money, WHEN YOU SHOP MENARD'S

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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Seems like they should know about TCU's ranching program

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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I don't know, man, starting to think this whole ed tech thing isn't all it was cracked up to be

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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Now *I* didn't have to wait 20 years for it, but I'm thrilled nonetheless!

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Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

"Catton illuminates how war reaches every part of the populace, often warping them in the process." Delighted to see the New York Times cover Theodore Catton's new @oupress.bsky.social book, "Molly Brumley's Civil War: Surviving the Guerrilla War in Arkansas," acquired by @jschiller.bsky.social

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How Is the Persian Invasion of Greece Like the Iran War?

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University of Oklahoma Press @oupress.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

It's a war book review roundup in @nytimes.com and you can read all about MOLLIE BRUMLEY'S CIVIL WAR by OUP author Theodore Catton with this gifted article! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/b...

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How Is the Persian Invasion of Greece Like the Iran War?

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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

A friend of my 9-year-old taught me everything you need to know about this guy when he said: "Every Mr. Beast video be like 'I BROKE 100 KIDS' LEGS SO I COULD BUY THEM WHEELCHAIRS!'"

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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I have also teleported to a Waffle House (my wife brought me there directly from a surgery once)

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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Thank you to these brave men in uniform for shifting US-men's-sports hatred away from hockey 🫡

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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I saw Emilie Connolly give a job talk like 7 years ago and it so rearranged the mental furniture that I remember where I was sitting, looking around to see if people shared my reaction like a kid at a movie. Congratulations!

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 05/12/2025

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...

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

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

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?...

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Special EPM Podcast Series hosted by Sue Retka Schill featuring Tom Rogers and Jeff Manuel

YouTube video by Ethanol Producer Magazine

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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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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 ...

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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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.

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University of Oklahoma Press @oupress.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

📣🌟 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...

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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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

A book with a gas pump handle and hose spewing corn cobs, and sugar cane rising at the bottom on the cover. There is a bookshelf in the background of the photo. The cover reads "Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels," and the authors are Jeffrey T. Manuel and Thomas D. Rogers.

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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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)

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

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...

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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...

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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

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.

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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

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

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University of Oklahoma Press @oupress.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

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

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Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

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

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 01/07/2025

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!

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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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...

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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...

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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

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

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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

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.

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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

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.

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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 29/04/2025

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

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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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...

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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...

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

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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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

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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

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)

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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

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...

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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

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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

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/

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Joe Schiller - University of Oklahoma Press

218-234-5928 | E-MAIL JOE TWITTER @JOE_SCHILLER SUBMIT A PROPOSAL Learn more about publishing withthe University of Oklahoma Press Acquisitions Editor

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Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

"...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.

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The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem

Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

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

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

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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

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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...

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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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

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Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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.

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