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How many of us really know every side to Oklahomas 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 Oklahomas 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, and economics.

These decidedly contrarian Sooner voices reflect the progressive, libertarian, and even radical viewpoints that influenced the states creation. Contributors talk of growing up Okie and radical, of the legacy of Woody Guthrie in the Red Dirt music scene, and of the Sunbelt Alliance that helped to stop the building of the Black Fox nuclear power plant. They look back at Oklahoma Citys role in the early civil rights sit-in movement and at an Oklahomans experience with Vietnam Veterans Against the War. They consider religion outside the mainstreamand everyday women squarely within these unique expressions of faith.

In assembling these engaging essays about Oklahoma and its past, Joyce calls on the alternative approach to history championed by Howard Zinn and also invokes Oklahoman Paul Harvey in offering us the rest of the story.

Alternative Oklahoma urges an honest alternative exploration of the states diverse past. Its an Oklahoma history that takes into account the overlooked and the left behind and contributes to a more open political dialogue in a state too often dismissed as unquestionably red.

After taking Davis D. Joyces course in Oklahoma history, a student once said, I saw an Oklahoma Id never seen before.

This is a splendid collection of writings in the true spirit of a peoples 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 resistance, of black struggle against segregation, of womens campaigns for abortion rights. It includes fascinating portraits of people, some famous, some obscure, who were engaged in these struggles. I hope this become a model for similar volumes on other states.Howard Zinn, author of Peoples History of the United States.

Contents: Oklahoma, George Milburn; The Difficulty of Celebrating an Invasion, Jerald C. Walker;Progressivism in Oklahoma Politics, 1900-1913: A Reinterpretation, Kenny L. Brown;Kate Barnard, Progressivism, and the West, Suzanne J. Crawford and Lynn R. Musslewhite; In Death You Shall not Wear It Either: The Persecution of Mennonite Pacifists in Oklahoma, Marvin E. Kroeker;She Never Weakened: The Heroism of Freda Ameringer, John Thompson; Wobblies in the Oilfields: The Suppression of the Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, Nigel sellars; The Road Once Taken: Socialist Medicine in Southwestern Oklahoma, Alana Hughes; Woody Guthrie: The Oklahoma Years, 1912-1929, Harry Menig; The New Deal Comes to Shawnee, Dale E.Soden; The Social Gospel of Nicholas Comfort, Bob Cottrell; Behold the Walls, Clara Luper; The Case of the Deerslayer, Stan Steiner; Black Oklahoma and Sense of place , Jimmie L. Franklin; The Southern Influence on Oklahoma , Danney Goble; The Creation of an Oklahoma Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights: A Presonal/Historical Essay Carole Jane Joyce; Violence and Oppression of Women in Rural Oklahoma, Elizabeth D. Barlow; Oklahomas Gay Liberation Movement, Thomas E. Guild, Joan Luxenburg, and Keith Smith; Even Among the Sooners, There Are More Important Things than Football, Alan Ehrenhalt.

In revealing an Oklahoma many have never seen, this book can remind Oklahoma citizens of changes yet to be made, show how to mark them, and (perhaps most important of all) inspire them to do the job.