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I hope you can join me on Saturday, March 30th for a Women's History Month program/lecture at Honey Springs Battlefield and Visitor Center in Checotah, OK for "I Thought This Place Doomed": Emma Caroline Morley and Sterling Price's Failed 1864 Raid at 1:00 pm. See the details in the link to the press release/article:

"I Thought This Place Doomed: Emma Caroline Morley and Sterling Price's Failed Raid of 1864" presentation by Dr. Michelle M. Martin | OHS Calendar Dr. Michelle M. Martin, an assistant professor of history and coordinator of the public history certificate in the Department of History at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, will present a program for Women’s History Month at Honey Springs Battlefield and Visitor Center. The presentation...

Yesterday Discovering History founder/president Dr. Michelle M Martin spoke at the Bartlesville Area History Museum about Opothleyahola and the Trail of Blood on Ice in the Civil War.

This Friday, November 10th Discovering History founder/president Dr. Michelle M. Martin will be giving a talk about the efforts of Mvskoke leader Opothleyahola during the Blood on Ice Campaign during the Civil War in Indian Territory at the Bartlesville Area History Museum! This event in FREE and open to the p***c and donations are always gladly accepted to help support the museum! See the image for details!

This weekend Discovering History founder/president Michelle Martin took two groups of her public history students to Fort Gibson State Historic Site to learn about living history events as a part of service learning for their class this fall!

Discovering History founder/president Michelle Martin trained a new set of laundresses who will be support for a 1st Kansas colored infantry living history group at Fort Gibson today!

Discovering History founder/president Michelle Martin is gearing up for her first year as an Assistant Professor of History at NSU. Stay tuned here for updates and reports on the exciting things she will be doing at NSU!

Discovering History founder/president Michelle has made the move back to the Central Plains! She is busy setting up home and office spaces. After getting her home set up she will work on her on campus office space, until then her 19th century self is guarding the office.

Discovering History founder/president Michelle is in the last stages of packing for her return to the Central Plains. In a couple weeks she will be moving back to Oklahoma as she prepares to set up her new home, office, and prepare for her position at Northeastern State University this August. While living apart from her husband for the next three years will be difficult Michelle is thrilled to be coming back home to Oklahoma which means she is closer to her other adopted home state of Kansas!

Recently Discovering History founder/president Michelle Martin was in Oklahoma City to receive the Linda Williams Reese Award for the Outstanding Dissertation on Oklahoma History! She caught up with her History Rock Star girl gang and had a grand time!

I have been sitting on some news that I am ready to share. In February I traveled to Oklahoma for an on campus job interview at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, OK. Tahlequah is the capital of the Cherokee Nation and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee. Northeastern’ s roots go back to the Cherokee National Female Seminary that was founded to provide advanced education for Cherokee women. This fall I am honored, humbled, and thrilled to be joining the faculty in the Department of History. I will be an Asisstant Professor of History and specialize in Native American and Public History. So, now the challenge is to find a house and get one purchased, get Josie and me moved, and settle in and prep classes. I must thank everyone for all the support, the good vibes, and encouragement. This road has been difficult. I could not have done this without everyone’s support. Mvto (thank you) so very very much. ❤ to everyone

Discovering History founder Michelle Martin was selected to receive the Linda Reese Award for the Outstanding Dissertation in Oklahoma History from the Oklahoma Historical Society. She will be back in Oklahoma City in March for the awards event. She is humbled, thrilled, and very grateful to receive this recognition especially from her adopted home state.

Discovering History founder Michelle Martin is in the frozen north, Michigan, for Christmas with her family! The tree is just too pretty not to share. Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Happy Kwanza, and Joyous New Year!

Wishing you all a joyous holiday with family and friends!

Discovering History founder/president Dr. Michelle Martin has been selected as a 2023 Mellon Applied History Fellow at the Center for the American West at the University of Colorado Boulder. She will be working with other amazing fellows and the incomparable, ground breaking historian Patty Limerick for ten days in June.

https://www.colorado.edu/center/west/michelle-martin

Discovering History founder Michelle has been spending time at home with her family in Michigan.

Discovering History founder/president Michelle Martin received her diploma today and it has a great spot on her office wall!

New Website! Coming Soon!

HOME | michellemmartinphd I am an academic and public historian who studies the intersections of gender, race, and ethnicity in the American West from 1800-1900. I am also a trained museum professional and living history interpreter who seeks to share history with a wide public audience.

This week Discovering History founder/president Michelle Martin travels to Oklahoma to start giving into some new research material to start the process of transitioning her dissertation into a book! She is also starting some new research for a possible set of articles.

Discovering History founder/president Michelle Marie Martin graduated today with her doctorate in history from the University of New Mexico. She graduated summa cm laude and with Distinction, the university’s highest honors.

Here is the latest from Discovering History founder/president Michelle Martin on the Discovering History blog!

Dissertation Update: Introducing Dr. Michelle M. Martin This dissertation update is the absolute best one to date: my dissertation is complete! On Monday, March 21, 2022 after an intense year of writing, editing, continuing research, and lots of tears,...