Books published by University of Oklahoma Press

Although Greek society was largely male-dominated, it gave rise to a strong tradition of female authorship. Women poets of ancient Greece and Rome have long fascinated readers, even though much of their poetry survives only in fragmentary form.This pathbreaking volume is the first collection of essays to examine virtually all surviving poetry by Greek and Roman women. It elevates the status of the poems by demonstrating their depth and artistry. Edited and with an introduction by Ellen Greene, the volume covers a broad time span, beginning with Sappho (ca. 630 b.c.e.) in archaic Greece and extending to Sulpicia (first century B.C.E.) in Augustan Rome. In their analyses, the contributors situate the female poets in an established male tradition, but they also reveal their distinctly "feminine" perspectives. Despite relying on literary convention, the female poets often defy cultural norms, speaking in their own voices and transcending their positions as objects of derision in male-authored texts. In their innovative reworkings of established forms, women poets of ancient Greece and Rome are not mere imitators but creators of a distinct and original body of work.

Presents seven dramas from the first truly American theater. Composed in Nahuatl during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, most of these plays survive only in later copies. Five are morality plays. The other two plays dramatize biblical narratives: the stories of Abraham and Isaac and of the three wise men.

Lurking in the caves of eastern New Mexico, Falke, a 1000-year-old vampire, chooses his next bride: Melissa Roanhorse, an Albuquerque teenager. To regain his granddaughter's life, Michael Roanhorse, wise to the power of myth, must outwit the vampire and his loyal coven.

The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign of World War I, an offensive that hastened the war's end. Yet despite the importance of this effort, the training and operation of II Corps has received scant attention from historians.

Nowhere can travellers cross the Rockies so easily as through the high, treeless valley in Wyoming immediately south of the Wind River Mountains. South Pass has received much attention in lore and memory but attracted no serious book-length study. In this narrative, award-winning author Will Bagley explains the significance of South Pass.

The inclusion of the Ninth Cavalry and three other African American regiments in the post-Civil War army was one of the nation's most problematic social experiments. Charles Kenner's detailed biographies of officers and enlisted men describe the passions, aspirations, and conflicts that both bound blacks and white together and pulled them apart.

Few places provided a more storied backdrop for key events related to the high plains Indian wars than had Fort Robinson, Nebraska. Established in 1874 just south of the Black Hills, Fort Robinson witnessed many of the most dramatic, most tragic encounters between whites and American Indians, including the Cheyenne Outbreak, the death of Crazy Horse, the Ghost Dance, the desperation and diplomacy of such famed Plains Indian leaders as Dull Knife and Red Cloud, and the tragic sequence of events surrounding Wounded Knee. In Fort Robinson and the American West, 1874-1899, Thomas R. Buecker explores both the larger story of the Nebraska fort and the particulars of daily life and work at the fort. Buecker draws on historic reminiscences, government records, reports, correspondence, and other official accounts to render a thorough yet lively depiction.Thomas R. Buecker is curator of the Nebraska State Historical Society''s Fort Robinson Museum, Crawford, Nebraska, and the author of Fort Robinson and the American Century 1900-1948, based on more than twenty years of archival research as well as the personal recollections of the men and women who served at the fort. "The academic integrity and fine writing style make this book more than a mere history of a lone military post. Buecker ties Fort Robinson''s historical development to events well beyond the narrow geographical confines of the Nebraska Panhandle, connecting the bigger stories with the larger military and political decisions that shaped the development of the northern and central plains. This book offers a sophisticated, reliable, and eminently readable interpretation of crucial military and Indian relations during the height of the fabled Indian wars."---Michael Tate, author of The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West

First published more than a century ago, The Biography of a Grizzly recounts the life of a fictitious bear named Wahb who lived and died in the Greater Yellowstone region. This new edition combines Ernest Thompson Seton's classic tale and original illustrations with historical and scientific context for Wahb's story.

As the first decade of the twenty-first century has made brutally clear, the very definitions of war and the enemy have changed almost beyond recognition. In this timely book, national security expert Max G. Manwaring explores a little-understood actor on the stage of irregular warfare - the gang.

The first book to chronicle the attempt to recast the Native American burial mounds as the work of a lost white race of "true" native Americans. Jason Colavito traces this monumental deception from the farthest reaches of the frontier to the halls of Congress, mapping a century-long conspiracy to fabricate and promote a false ancient history.

Presents a closely observed, comprehensive account of Britain's failed strategy in the American South during the American War for Independence. Approaching the campaign from the British perspective, this book restores a critical but little-studied chapter to the narrative of the Revolutionary War.

A lyrical tale of survival in a strange, hostile world

Drawing on a wide range of sources, Theodore Binnema examines the impact of technology on the peoples of the northern plains, beginning with the bow-and-arrow and continuing through the arrival of the horse, European weapons, Old World diseases, and Euroamerican traders.

This is the tale of Hannali Innominee, a "Mingo" or natural lord of the 19th-century Choctaw Indian, and a fictionalized epic history of his people in the 19th-century.