Russell CobbStumbling toward 19 North CincinnatiThis is a story about an address. The address is 19 North Cincinnati Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma. If you look up that address on Google Maps…2 min read·Feb 18, 2022----
Russell CobbThere’s a statue — well, there was a statue — on the south side of the Stanley Milner Edmonton…Lots of glass and steel. From one angle, I think it looks like one of those huge World War I tanks, the ones with treads that cover the…5 min read·Oct 14, 2020----
Russell CobbEpisode 1: History X podcastIt’s a hot day in 1916 near the capital of Wisconsin. The editor and publisher of the Wisconsin State Journal, Richard Lloyd Jones, is…12 min read·Sep 25, 2020----
Russell CobbWhere in the Hell is Oklahoma?A Polemic Against the Midwesternization of the United States.12 min read·Aug 12, 2020----
Russell CobbOn the Myth and Reality of Gilcrease, part 2.Well, of course, my research being a chronicle of the real Oklahoma, not the petro-Christian, white-washed mythology of Oklahoma, I opened…2 min read·Jul 25, 2020----
Russell CobbWho Was the Real Thomas Gilcrease?Every school kid in Tulsa will recall trips to the Gilcrease Museum. It’s a lovely place right on the border between the Osage Nation and…5 min read·Jul 23, 2020----
Russell CobbChurches Per Capita and Other Lies in the American HeartlandA story made the rounds when I was in high school that Tulsa, Oklahoma, had displaced Peoria, Illinois, as the test-marketing capital of…4 min read·May 7, 2020----
Russell CobbIs Oklahoma Even Weirder than “Tiger King?”I was actually kind of bored by “Tiger King.” Not because I’m an intellectual snob, but because it seemed so, well, Oklahoman. “Let’s go…1 min read·Apr 15, 2020----
Russell CobbArt, techne, and remix. Your turn.In Of Remixology, Gunkel contrasts artists like Henry Rollins, Socrates, and David Byrne, with theorists like Walter Benjamin and…1 min read·Mar 18, 2020----
Russell CobbTeaching in the Time of PandemicsI feel a little like this. But here we go anyway.1 min read·Mar 16, 2020----