Oklahoma Reconsidered: A History - Paperback

by Sarah Eppler Janda (Author), Patricia Loughlin (Author), Jari Askins (Foreword by)

Oklahoma Reconsidered provides a concise and conversational history of Oklahoma from the 1700s and into the twenty-first century by two historians who show how Oklahoma has been shaped by wars, epidemics, civil rights movements, and unified efforts to heal after devastating terrorist attacks. While other books on Oklahoma history often linger in the nineteenth century, Oklahoma Reconsidered places the central focus on Oklahoma from 1907 to 2025--including the rise in the Latinx population in the state, the success of the Oklahoma City Thunder NBA basketball team as a unifying force in the state, and the significance of the McGirt decision in 2020, which granted tribal jurisdiction over much of eastern Oklahoma as Indian Country, offering a glimpse into the tensions between state and tribal authority.

Author Biography

Sarah Eppler Janda is a professor of history at Cameron University. She is the author of Prairie Power: Student Activism, Counterculture, and Backlash in Oklahoma, 1962-1972 and the coeditor (with Patricia Loughlin) of This Land Is Herland: Gendered Activism in Oklahoma from the 1870s to the 2010s. Patricia Loughlin is a professor of history at the University of Central Oklahoma. She is the author of Angie Debo: Daughter of the Prairie, with Excerpts from Her Childhood Diary. Jari Askins is a judge, lawyer, and politician. She served in Oklahoma's House of Representatives and as Oklahoma's fifteenth lieutenant governor.