“Red Soil, White Oil” explores how white settlers and federal officials in early-twentieth-century Indian Territory and Oklahoma erected a regime of petroleum extraction that undermined the property rights of Native ...

My project argues for critical attention to local rhetorics and characterizes Oklahoma as a unique site for understanding their impact on student writers and writing instruction. Despite rhetorical suppression from dominant ...

I provide many examples from films and novels to illustrate a pattern resulting from the Vietnam War's threat to the frontier myth. The frontier myth is re-established in Vietnam War literature through a roughly chronological ...

Coastal Carolina University is constructing a new library while also planning a complete renovation of the old library. Space needs for emerging makerspace technologies, data visualization labs, and special collections ...

Making mistakes and redeeming oneself marks growth. Philena Shiloh, a na? African American woman, learns the hard way that growth generates both pain and reward. An unplanned pregnancy forces Philena's best friend, Rachel, ...

The budgeting reform literature is replete with examples of reforms such as performance budgeting, program budgeting, and zero-base budgeting that have failed to achieve their stated goals. This article analyzes a new ...

A new analytical technique based on palladium (Pd) and H2 catalytic system showed significant potential as a useful method for reliably assessing redox sites in humic substances. The technique identifies redox sites as a ...