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Davis D. Joyce won the McCasland Award for Excellence in Teaching Oklahoma History from the Oklahoma Heritage in 1997.His Ph.D. is from the University of Oklahoma , and he has spent most of his career teaching at three Oklahoma universities: the University of Tulsa, East Central University in Ada (where he holds emeritus status), and Rogers State University in Claremore. Along the way, he also taught one year in England at Keele University and two years in Hungary at the University of Debrecen. He has authored, co-authored, or edited nine books. They include a study of the life and writings of the radical historian and activist Howard Zinn entitled Howard Zinn: A Radical American Vision, his first collection of Oklahoma History essays, An Oklahoma I had Never Seen Before: Alternative Views of Oklahoma History, and Alternative Oklahoma: Contrarian Views of the Sooner State.
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An Alternative View of Oklahoma History
October 17-21, 2007
at the University of Central Oklahoma
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Alternative Oklahoma is an Oklahoma history course--with a difference. The emphasis is on women, minorities, radicals, and common people. It might also be said that topics are emphasized which have traditionally not made it to the textbooks--topics such as reproductive choice, gay rights, the move to stop nuclear power in Oklahoma, and Oklahoma's chapter of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. But sometimes also standard topics are looked at--in a new way; examples include "The Difficulty of Celebrating an Invasion," presenting an American Indian perspective on Oklahoma's much-celebrated land run. As the state marks its Centennial, such "alternative" approaches seem interesting, even needed.
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The Class Reading List: (These books and articles supplied
by OSLEP)
- An Oklahoma I had Never Seen Before: Alternative Views of Oklahoma History edited by Davis D. Joyce, University of Oklahoma Press, 1998
- Alternative Oklahoma: Contrarian Views of the Sooner State edited by Davis D. Joyce, University of Oklahoma Press, 2007
- Red Dirt Anthology
- Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, University of Oklahoma Press, 2006.
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