Battle Cry for History: The First 125 Years of the Oklahoma Historical Society (open access)

Battle Cry for History: The First 125 Years of the Oklahoma Historical Society

Article commemorates the anniversary of the founding of the Oklahoma Historical Society by relating its growth and accomplishments over its 125 years of existence. Bob L. Blackburn returns to update his article from the Winter 1992-93 issue of the Chronicles of Oklahoma and include the events of the past twenty-five years.
Date: Spring 2018
Creator: Blackburn, Bob L.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 96, Number 1, Spring 2018 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 96, Number 1, Spring 2018

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Spring 2018
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Simon Ralph "S.R." Walkingstick: A Cherokee Leader (open access)

Simon Ralph "S.R." Walkingstick: A Cherokee Leader

Article traces the life and genealogy of S. R. Walkingstick to show the ways in which one Cherokee family contributed to the tribal and state community.
Date: Summer 2018
Creator: McCullagh, James G.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Fitting in and Sitting In: Phillip Henry Porter and Memories of Integration Efforts in Enid, 1955-58 (open access)

Fitting in and Sitting In: Phillip Henry Porter and Memories of Integration Efforts in Enid, 1955-58

Article recounts the struggle for civil rights in Enid and how students stood on the front lines of the battle both inside and outside of the classroom. A core group of young African Americans led these efforts in Enid, one of whom was Phillip Porter.
Date: Spring 2018
Creator: Preston, Aaron
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
German-American Immigrants Encounter World War I: A Cautionary Tale (open access)

German-American Immigrants Encounter World War I: A Cautionary Tale

Article reveals the story of one family of German-American immigrants who were conscientious objectors during World War I, and how their story reflects the larger narrative of immigrant religious expression in wartime.
Date: Autumn 2018
Creator: Reimer, Dalton
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 96, Number 2, Summer 2018 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 96, Number 2, Summer 2018

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Summer 2018
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
How W.K. Maxfield and the Doughboys from Southwest Oklahoma Helped Bring an End to the First World War (open access)

How W.K. Maxfield and the Doughboys from Southwest Oklahoma Helped Bring an End to the First World War

Article uses the story of W. K. Maxfield to share the exploits of the 36th Infantry Division at the Battle of Saint-Étienne during World War I.
Date: Summer 2018
Creator: Neighbors, Phil
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Evans and Clark Families: Borderlands Legacies in Western Oklahoma, 1875-1950 (open access)

The Evans and Clark Families: Borderlands Legacies in Western Oklahoma, 1875-1950

Article uses the lives of the Evans and Clark families to demonstrate evolving systems of racial discrimination in the emerging state of Oklahoma.
Date: Summer 2018
Creator: Truden, John
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 96, Number 3, Fall 2018 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 96, Number 3, Fall 2018

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Autumn 2018
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Spring 2018 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Spring 2018

Notes and Documents column including "Oklahoma Through the Lens of Z. P. Meyers," a short article recounting the life and career of Zenas Phillip Meyers, professional photographer who owned and operated Meyers Photo Shop in Oklahoma City from 1928-1962. Today his surviving prints and negatives are archived at the Oklahoma Historical Society as part of the Z. P. Meyers/Barney Hillerman Photographic Collection.
Date: Spring 2018
Creator: Cornelius, Jerry L. & Sutton, Phil
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Spring 2018 (open access)

For the Record, Spring 2018

For the Record section including the minutes of the quarterly board meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on October 25, 2017 as well as the following lists: "New Members, October-November-December 2017" and "Twenty-Year-Members, October-November-December 2017."
Date: Spring 2018
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 96, Number 4, Winter 2018-19 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 96, Number 4, Winter 2018-19

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation. Index to volume 96 starts on page 507.
Date: Winter 2018
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Cherokee National Female Seminary Principal Teacher Etta Jane Rider and Her Assistant Teachers, 1901-04 (open access)

Cherokee National Female Seminary Principal Teacher Etta Jane Rider and Her Assistant Teachers, 1901-04

Article provides a biographical tribute to Etta Jane Rider, principal teacher of the Cherokee National Female Seminary from 1901-1904, and to the assistant teachers who joined her in educating young Cherokee women.
Date: Winter 2018
Creator: McCullagh, James G. & Davis, James S.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Winter 2018-19 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Winter 2018-19

Notes and Documents column including a document by written by Michael Bell about Oklahoma congressman James V. McClintic and the items he obtained and donated to the Oklahoma History Center from his travels in Europe after World War I.
Date: Winter 2018
Creator: Bell, Michael
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Winter 2018-19 (open access)

For the Record, Winter 2018-19

For the Record section including the minutes of the regular quarterly board meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on July 25, 2018 and lists of new members and twenty-year members from July to September 2018.
Date: Winter 2018
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Curious Links: Unorthodox Ideas from Antediluvian Speculation to New Thought and Utopian Hopes in Early Oklahoma Politics (open access)

Curious Links: Unorthodox Ideas from Antediluvian Speculation to New Thought and Utopian Hopes in Early Oklahoma Politics

Article examines the lives, careers, and works of four founding political figures of the state of Oklahoma: newspaper editor-publisher and Populist Party organizer Samuel Crocker, Boomer and Populist member of the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature I. N. Terrill, displaced governor and key figure at Oklahoma Constitutional Convention Henry S. Johnston, and William H. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, officer at the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention and later governor of Oklahoma.
Date: Autumn 2018
Creator: Turner, Alvin O.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Better Royalties: Federal Policy, the Quapaw Tribe, and Self-Determination, 1900-70 (open access)

Better Royalties: Federal Policy, the Quapaw Tribe, and Self-Determination, 1900-70

Article covers the struggle the Quapaw Tribe faced to obtain fair mining leases in the rich mining region they had been relocated to in northeastern Oklahoma, as well as to attain rights to self-determination despite suppression by federal policy.
Date: Winter 2018
Creator: Nolan, Raymond Anthony
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History