Joe Schiller
@jschiller.bsky.social
acquisitions editor, University of Oklahoma Press | history | environment | North American West | Sports | joe@ou.edu
Also: hockey
Detroit Lakes, MN
Also: hockey
Detroit Lakes, MN
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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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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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November 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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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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.
November 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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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📣🌟 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...
October 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
📣🌟 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...
Not sure how I missed this post, but I did not miss the book in my mail. Cheers @jeffmanuel.bsky.social !!!
October 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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)
October 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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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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...
www.oupress.com/978080619601...
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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October 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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...
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.
We were saddened to learn that Quintard Taylor passed away earlier this week. Founder of blackpast.org and a giant in western history, it was our great honor to know and work with Quintard as editor of the Race & Culture in the American West series. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Quintard Taylor, UW professor and Black history archivist, dies at 76
Quintard Taylor, Jr., professor emeritus of history at UW and founder of an online archive of Black history, died Sunday.
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September 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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
Our service to the state and region is one of my favorite parts of working @oupress.bsky.social
By now our Fall/Winter 2025 catalog has found its way to mailboxes, desks, and assorted piles, but we want to make sure that everyone can see the opening page of our catalog. After all, "to know Oklahoma, you must read OUP books." Special thanks to @jschiller.bsky.social for this thoughtful piece.
September 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
My words, in print!
Our service to the state and region is one of my favorite parts of working @oupress.bsky.social
Our service to the state and region is one of my favorite parts of working @oupress.bsky.social
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Remembering Dr. David Levy. We are honored to have published him and will fondly remember him as a friend of the press.
The Department of History is sad to share that Professor Emeritus David Levy passed away last week surrounded by his family.
August 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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.
This summer, the coolest thing happened at my kid’s middle school.
A group of kids got together and formed their own summer basketball league. They picked teams, kept stats, refereed, recorded, posted on YouTube, and commentated.
For two months. Outside.
A group of kids got together and formed their own summer basketball league. They picked teams, kept stats, refereed, recorded, posted on YouTube, and commentated.
For two months. Outside.
August 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This is the way.
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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.)
(Acquired for the press by @jschiller.bsky.social.)
July 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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.)
(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...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/dirt...
July 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/dirt...
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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!
🚨New Episode ft. digital, environmental, & urban historian, Dr. @jasonheppler.org (Senior Developer, @rrchnm.bsky.social @georgemasonu.bsky.social), & his book "Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism" (@oupress.bsky.social, 2024).
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076 - Jason Heppler - Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism
A conversation with historian Jason Heppler about their book
Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism
(University of Oklahoma Press, Environment in Modern North Ameri...
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July 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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!
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...
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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July 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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...
This is going to be so beautiful! And not just because I have an essay in it!
Check it out: the pre-order link for Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest! This book collects dozens of #LiteraryLandscapes essays, and pre-orders will ship in November—perfect for Christmas! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
Lingering Inland
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June 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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.
May 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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.
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.
This Day in Labor History: May 8, 1935. Mine Mill leads zinc miners out on strike in the Missouri/Kansas/Oklahoma tri-state border area. This strike was unusual because of the political conservatism of many of the workers. And the union completely lost the strike because the workers rejected it.
May 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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.
May 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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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Putting this on my to-read pile, this looks fantastic.
Out Now! 'Big Skies, White Hoods: The 1920s Klan and a History of Hate in Montana' by Christine Kimberly Erickson - a must-read for Western historians of the early 20th century. www.oupress.com/978080619537...
April 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Putting this on my to-read pile, this looks fantastic.
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...
www.oupress.com/978080619537...
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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April 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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...
www.oupress.com/978080619537...
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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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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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April 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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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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)
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...
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...
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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April 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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)
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...
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...
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
www.oupress.com
April 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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...
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/
www.oupress.com/joe-schiller/
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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April 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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/
www.oupress.com/joe-schiller/
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"...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.
AI developers knew the books we publish were essential to "training" their bots. They just didn't want to pay authors or publishers.
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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March 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"...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.
AI developers knew the books we publish were essential to "training" their bots. They just didn't want to pay authors or publishers.