The Civil War and intertribal factionalism in the Cherokee Nation left one-third of women as widows and one-fourth of the children as orphans by 1863. This article is a careful examination of the lives of many Cherokee women in which the author concludes that while the crisis may have empowered women, it also led to a crisis of identity for elite women.

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.

Article provides a portrait of John H. Cotteral, the first federal judge for the Western District of Oklahoma and the first Oklahoman to occupy the bench of the circuit court of appeals. The article explores both the man and the legal opinions he wrote throughout his forty-year career.

Article showing how excessive violence, external opposition, and internal factionalism led to the decline of the Ku Klux Klan in Oklahoma during the late 1920s.

Article analyzes the work of several historians from the 1960s and 1970s. The politics and culture of the 1960s and 1970s played a role in reshaping popular conceptions of Indian America as scholars began to re-investigate Indian-white relations. This article analyzes how that time period affected the interpretations of the removal of the southeastern Indians.

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.