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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Congratulations to Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow Dr. Ed Green, who was named winner of the Robyn Lily Davis Dissertation Prize by the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic 1/3

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Judy Lewis, Emerita Professor of British History, who has published her third book, The Country House at War: A Story of Loss, Reinvention, and the Birth of a New Britain, with Yale University Press.

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Department of History at the University of Oklahoma is pleased to announce Dr. Julie Reed as the new Merrick Chair in Western History.

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Attention fellow Normaniacs and other Oklahomies! Early voting starts TODAY for the Aug. 25 elections. We’ve got primary runoffs for Democrats and Republicans, as well as a couple of significant state questions. Get informed on the choices and go vote! www.clevelandcountyelectionboard.com

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Welcome to Cleveland County Election Board

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Lauren Duval, whose book The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence, recently received two prizes from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. 1/4

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

OU History PhD alum Taylor Cozzens recently received two prestigious awards from the Agricultural History Society 1/4

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Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Have you listened to our new episode? Lauren Duval (@ouhistory.bsky.social) and Leah Cargin discuss what the home meant in the revolutionary era, archival research, revisionist histories, and how violence has often been obscured from the revolutionary narrative. newbooksnetwork.com/the-home-front

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Lewis Eliot, who has just published his first book, Voices of Liberty: Black Radical Revolution and Diplomatic Abolitionism in Britain’s Atlantic World, with the University of California Press. 1/4

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Congratulations again to Dr. Lauren Duval, who recently published her article “Reconsidering the Place of Domesticity in the Early Republic” in the Journal of the Early Republic’s “Engaging Historiography Forum: Women at the Center.” 1/3

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Hines, whose article “Revering, Navigating, and Conquering Bolivian Glaciers in an Age of Dispossession” has been published in Latin American Research Review. Great work!

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Lauren Duval, whose book The Home Front received the Honorable Mention for the 2026 James Kirby Martin Book Prize. Awarded by the Fort Plain Museum, the prize recognizes the best book on the American Revolution.

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Roberta Magnusson on the publication of her book, Urban Infrastructure in Medieval England: Sustainability and Resilience (John’s Hopkins University Press)! In addition, Dr. Magnusson was recently promoted to the rank of professor. Great work, Roberta!

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Dr. Du Fei has been awarded a Manuscript Development Workshop from OU’s Arts and Humanities Forum for the book project, "Local Women, Global Histories: Gendering Economic Life, Law, and Islam in Early Modern Transregional India.” 1/2

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Congratulations to recent alum Dr. Taylor Cozzens, who has been awarded the Provost’s Doctoral Dissertation Prize for 2025-2026! 1/2

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Lauren Duval, whose chapter, “Legacies of the Revolution’s Domestic Warfare,” has been published in the edited volume The American Revolution at 250 from the University of Virginia Press.

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Tracy and Dr. Ben Keppel, who were each awarded a Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences Senior Faculty Fellowship for their current book projects. 1/3

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Congratulations to PhD candidate Leah Cargin, who has been awarded a Bullard Dissertation Completion Fellowship! Her dissertation, “Bleeding, Birthing, and Bathing in Imaginary Peripheries of Mexico City,” is directed by Dr. Sarah Hines.

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Congratulations to PhD candidate Bryce Jones, who has received the 2025-2026 Provost’s Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for the Humanities/Fine Arts. He will be recognized at the Graduate College Awards Ceremony later this month. Great work, Bryce!

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Congratulations to our grad students who received awards from the American Society for Environmental History at its recent conference! Zach Nora received the Equity Graduate Student Fellowship, and Ariel Schnee received the Early Career Research Grant. Fantastic work!

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Dr. David Levy was posthumously inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame on March 19. Lynne Levy accepted on his behalf. Professor Emeritus and longtime OU History Department Chair Rob Griswold spoke on Dr. Levy’s impact. Thank you to the OHS for honoring Dr. Levy!

Lynne Levy speaks at the lectern while Dr. Rob Griswold looks on in the background.

Dr. Rob Griswold speaks to the banquet crowd.

Medals for the four inductees: Donald L. Fixico, David W. Levy, Linda D. Wilson, and Timothy A. Zwink

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Lauren Duval, whose new book, The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence, has been awarded the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award for First Book!

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Please join us and the Department of Religious Studies for a screening of the documentary Carving the Divine: Buddhist Sculptors of Japan. Filmmaker Yujiro Seki will hold a virtual Q&A after the screening. We will be in Kaufman Hall 221B at 7 PM on Friday, March 27.

A flyer for the event. No pertinent additional information, but some images of Buddhist sculptures and one kind of sad looking sculptor carving at one with a hammer and chisel.

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Congratulations to OU History PhD alum Anthony E. Carlson, whose book, Perilous Waters: Settlers, Swamps, and the State, 1775-1920, was recently published by the University of North Carolina Press! 1/3

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Congratulations to our PhD candidates who have been awarded Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences (DFCAS) fellowships! Bryce Jones and Justin Stuart received DFCAS Dissertation Completion Fellowships. 1/2

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Du Fei, who has been awarded a Junior Faculty Fellowship by the OU Research Council for work on his first book, “Local Women, Global Histories: Gendering Economic Life, Law, and Islam in Early Modern Transregional India.”

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Dr. Jay Casey recently published his chapter, “Play Across Military Spaces,” in the edited volume In Play Across All Spaces: Why the Brain Needs Play and How to Foster Play in Any Context, from Kendall Hunt Innovative Ink. 1/2

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Hey skystorians and Native studies 👋 American Philosophical Society has an a fantastic grant funding program through the Phillips Fund for Native American research. This fund has supported me several times for Alaska oral history research I’m helping to get the word out to apply by March 2! 🗃️

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Professor David Levy, a longtime member of the OU History Department who made immense contributions to the university through his scholarship and teaching, will be posthumously inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame next month. 1/4

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Lauren Duval, who contributed the chapter “War and Society” to the recently published Cambridge History of the American Revolution!

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Tracy, whose co-authored article, “Freedom of Speech and the Viability of Science — Dr. Jeremiah Stamler’s Fight against HUAC,” was just published by the New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 394 no. 6: 606-611). Nice work!

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Alan Levenson, whose book Jews and Judaism: Fact and Fiction was named to the 2026 Outstanding References Sources List! 1/2

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Congratulations to Samantha Byrd, OU History MA 2025, who has received the Graduate Dean’s Distinguished Thesis Prize for the Humanities and Fine Arts! 1/2

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Lauren Duval, whose book, The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence, is out today from the Omohundro Institute and UNC Press! 1/4 uncpress.org/9781469690056/…

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The Home Front

Prior to the American Revolution, the urban centers of colonial North America had little direct experience of war. With the outbreak of violence, British for...

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Congratulations to our PhD student Ariel Schnee, who was awarded the Irene Ledesma Prize by the Coalition for Western Women’s History at the Western History Association meeting last month. 1/2

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Join us in congratulating Ronnie A. Grinberg, whose book Write Like a Man was named an NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite in the Religion Nonfiction Category! Explore this book here: hubs.ly/Q03LztL00

Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals by Ronnie A. Grinberg

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Du Fei for having been selected as one of five participants for the biennial Wallace Johnson First Book Program offered through the American Society for Legal History. 1/4

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Congratulations to PhD candidate Justin Stuart, who has received the American Historical Association’s Albert J. Beveridge Grant, which supports research in the Western hemisphere! 1/2

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

DISTRIBUTE SYLLABI LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The Department of History is sad to share that Professor Emeritus David Levy passed away last week surrounded by his family.

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Hey OU students! Looking for another class for fall? We have some great ones with seats remaining. HIST 3993 Evolution of Martyrdom with Dr. Shepkaru and HIST 4003 with Dr. Schapkow are both Western Culture GenEds! 1/3

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Ronnie Grinberg, who has been selected for the Faculty Investment Program by OU’s Research Council! This will aid her next project, “No More Nice Girls: Women’s Liberation, Cosmopolitan Jews, and the Remaking of American Intellectual Life.” 1/2

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Congratulations to history major Mikayla Taylor, whose paper, “Maria Izquierdo and the Woman’s Role in Mexico,” won first prize in the 2025 Latin America and the Caribbean Paper Award from the Center for the Americas in the Boren College of International Studies. Great work!

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Congratulations to all of our graduate students who completed their degrees this semester! First up: our five newly minted Masters of Arts: 1/10

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth Grennan Browning, who has been awarded the OU Arts and Humanities Forum Public Fellowship for 2025-2026! 1/4

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Congratulations to Master’s student Hope Cunningham and PhD candidate Zane Brown, who have been selected as Jack Haley Fellows at OU’s Western History Collections for Summer 2025! 1/3

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Congratulations to our PhD candidate Tom Kahle, who has been named the Merrick-OU Press Graduate Publishing Fellow for 2025-2027. He will work with the editorial staff of the Press during the fellowship.

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Melissa Stockdale, who has been awarded the Franklin Grant from the American Philosophical Society. She will use the grant to conduct research on her current book project, Monumentally Divided.

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OU History Department @ouhistory.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Congratulations to Drs. Du Fei and Jennifer Holland, who have both been awarded Arts and Humanities Faculty Fellowships through the OU Arts and Humanities Forum! 1/3

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