Through collaboration with more than 20 higher education institutions and civil society organizations, the Community-based Global Learning Collaborative put together online, open-access teaching resources that advance such a...
The Institute of International Education (IIE) and Dickinson College have produced a new publication, Models of Change: Equity and Inclusion in Action in International Education, summarizing their partnership to reimagine an...
In the spring of 2020, as COVID-19 forced the suspension of most U.S. education abroad programs, study abroad students returned home, summer programs were canceled, and international educators pondered the unlikelihood of...
In 1875 Colonel Ranald Mackenzie -- a White US Army officer stationed in southwestern Indian Territory--conducted an experiment on Comanches and Kiowas living at Fort Sill. Relatively little is known about the experiment's...
Settler colonialism is a system by which a group overwhelms an existing population and imposes its culture upon the original population. The ownership of land is a key aspect of settler colonialism, as opposed to colonialism,...
The relationships between Indigenous peoples, cowboys, missionaries, and the US Army can be seen through the lens of an 1884 shooting that was recorded in a German-language newspaper. John Truden annotates this newspaper story,...
On July 12, 1975, two performing Asian elephants reacted t a loud noise at the Carson and Barnes Circus's off-season camp near Hugo, Oklahoma, and fled into the surrounding dense forest. Several circuses first established...
For many Oklahomans, Lake Thunderbird is familiar landscape. A manmade body of water in the center of the state, this reservoir and the surrounding forests have drawn naturalists, boater, bicyclists, campers, fishermen, and...
A traveling salesman in 1923 conned the Osage community and the federal government into giving him thousands of dollars to start an American Indian Steamship Company - he almost got away with it., Truden, John. "The American...
Neal Evans and Ben Clark built their lives on the rugged landscape of western Oklahoma—Evans as a storekeeper and Clark as a guide. John Truden uses the lives of the Evans and Clark families to demonstrate evolving systems of...