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These beautifully conceived and sculpted essays reveal a deep humanity and extensive knowledge. Weaving together local, national, world, and even ancient histories with personal stories, Joyce dips deeply into politics, religion, love for his adopted home of Oklahoma, and throughout, a thread of tribute to the great Howard Zinn. -Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz author of Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie

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How many of us really know every side to Oklahoma's past and present?In this companion to his previous volume, "An Oklahoma I Had Never Seen Before, " Davis D. Joyce presents fourteen essays that interpret Oklahoma's unique populist past and address current political and social issues. Joyce invited scholars and political activists to speak their minds on subjects ranging from gender, race, and religion to popular music, the energy industry, a...

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After taking Davis D. Joyce's course in Oklahoma history, a student once said, "I saw an Oklahoma I'd never seen before." "This is a splendid collection of writings in the true spirit of a 'people's history'. It begins with a delightful, wry overlook at Oklahoma by George Milburn, and goes on to tell about the state in way rarely seen in traditional histories. There are accounts of progressivism, of socialism, of labor radicalism, of Indian re...

This first-ever biography of historian and activist Howard Zinn traces in broad strokes the story of his life, placing special emphasis on his involvement in both the Civil Rights movement and the Viet Nam War protests. Besides discussing the major shaping events of his life, biographer and historian Davis Joyce summarizes each of Zinn's books within the context of his life, analyzes the evolution of Zinn's ideas, and concludes with a prelimin...