Guide to Perfectionism

H.P. Lovecraft was an American author who's literary successes mainly came after his death. Join Dave and Greg as they examine his life, controversial ideologies on race, and analyze two of his work in The Dunwich Horror and At the Mountains of Madness. 

Self-Determination Theory is a therapeutic framework that explores individual motivation and overall wellness. Join Dave and Greg as they explore the psychology and concepts that comprise Self-Determination Theory, as well as just how important autonomy is in the realm of feeling ...  Show more

In 1906, entrepreneurs Ottawa Gurley and J.B. Stradford purchased parcels of government land in Tulsa, Oklahoma. They had dreams of building a thriving Black community, equipped with the same amenities and privileges available to whites. Dubbed Greenwood, it was promoted as a san ...  Show more

In reality, the Tulsa "race riots" of 1921 was more like a massacre. Yet it was almost lost to history until 1997, and still not widely known outside of Oklahoma until HBO's The Watchmen put it on the cultural map. Learn all about this dark chapter in American history in this cla ...  Show more

In Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa (Duke UP, 2022), Jovan Scott Lewis retells the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, from the post-Reconstruction migration of Black people to Oklahoma Indian Territory to contemporary efforts to reb ...  Show more

Newburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of New York City in the Hudson River Valley. Like many other similarly sized cities across America, it has been beset with poverty and crime after decades of decline, with few o ...  Show more