Sooner State Civil Defense: Oklahoma Community and College Campus Cold War Preparedness, 1960-68 (open access)

Sooner State Civil Defense: Oklahoma Community and College Campus Cold War Preparedness, 1960-68

Article discusses the atmosphere of anxiety as the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union escalated in the 1960s that bred a need for preparedness in local communities and college campuses across western Oklahoma.
Date: Summer 2019
Creator: Brewer, Landry
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Emperor Haile Selassie in Stillwater: The First Visit to Oklahoma by a Reigning Foreign Head of State (open access)

Emperor Haile Selassie in Stillwater: The First Visit to Oklahoma by a Reigning Foreign Head of State

Article discusses Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia's visit to Oklahoma A&M College in 1954. This event followed the collaborative efforts between the country's leadership and Oklahoma A&M to found the Jimma Agricultural Technical School and the Imperial Ethiopian College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts in Ethiopia. Theodore M. Vestal describes the visit, the life of the Ethiopian emperor, and the history of Ethiopia in the following years.
Date: Summer 2001
Creator: Vestal, Theodore M.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Main Street, Stillwater OK, Growing Up with Hollywood CA: An Oklahoma Town's Movie Theaters (open access)

Main Street, Stillwater OK, Growing Up with Hollywood CA: An Oklahoma Town's Movie Theaters

Article describes the development of movie theaters in Stillwater, Oklahoma from opera houses, to locally-owned movie houses, to chain takeovers. Deborah Carmichael equates this growth to the development of the film industry in Hollywood and the importance of moving pictures in the history of the U.S.
Date: Spring 2002
Creator: Carmichael, Deborah
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oklahoma Territory and the National Archives: A Historian's Paradise (open access)

Oklahoma Territory and the National Archives: A Historian's Paradise

Article provides an auto-biographical exploration of the research conducted by Berlin Basil Chapman, an Oklahoma historian and an Assistant Professor of History at Oklahoma A&M. Chapman's works include articles, theses, and a bibliography centered around resources related to Oklahoma Territory in the National Archives.
Date: Winter 1982
Creator: Chapman, Berlin B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Revolution for the Hell of It: Abbie Hoffman Visits Oklahoma State University in 1971 (open access)

Revolution for the Hell of It: Abbie Hoffman Visits Oklahoma State University in 1971

Article discussing the struggle between Oklahoma State University student activists and conservative students and administrators in 1970-71 regarding the push to invite Abbie Hoffman as a campus speaker. This fueled an enormous controversy that, in the end, upheld the constitutional rights of OSU students.
Date: Autumn 2006
Creator: Johnson, Erica
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History