Serial/Series Title

Notes and Documents, Spring 2012 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Spring 2012

Notes and Documents column including a document chronicling the digitization of the film and video archives of the Oklahoma Historical Society, as well as a document honoring two new inductees into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2012, David Dary and Kenny A. Franks.
Date: Spring 2012
Creator: Ayers, Corey; Bass, Elizabeth M. B. & Lambert, Paul F.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Winter 2013-14 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Winter 2013-14

Notes and Documents column including a document about new resources made available by the Oklahoma Historical Society's John and Eleanor Kirkpatrick Research Center, which include prestatehood newspapers, the WKY, KTVY, KFOR film collection, and a searchable index of Hastain's Township Plats of the Creek Nation.
Date: Winter 2013
Creator: Williams, Chad & Toney, Tabatha
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Winter 2010-11 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Winter 2010-11

Notes and Documents column including Rob Smith's "A New Approach to the Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History and Audio Archives," which details the restructuring of the Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History and Audio Archives in order to expand the audio digitization program and improve preservation.
Date: Winter 2010
Creator: Smith, Rob
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 88, Number 4, Winter 2010-11 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 88, Number 4, Winter 2010-11

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation. Index to volume 88 starts on page 513.
Date: Winter 2010
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 95, Number 4, Winter 2017-18 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 95, Number 4, Winter 2017-18

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation. Index to volume 95 starts on page 512.
Date: Winter 2017
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 90, Number 1, Spring 2012 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 90, Number 1, Spring 2012

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Spring 2012
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Same Traditions, New Reasons: Experiences of American Indian Women in Pawnee Bill's Wild West Shows (open access)

Same Traditions, New Reasons: Experiences of American Indian Women in Pawnee Bill's Wild West Shows

Article describes American Indian women's roles while participating as part of the cast in Wild West shows. Wild West shows, such as the ones organized by G. W. "Pawnee Bill" Lillie, featured acts that entertained audiences and showed white Americans a version of life in the West. Alyce Vigil describes how American Indian women in the cast worked to maintain their traditions in this new context.
Date: Summer 2013
Creator: Vigil, Alyce
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
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
The Life and Times of the First Applicants to Platt National Park, 1906-10 (open access)

The Life and Times of the First Applicants to Platt National Park, 1906-10

Article explores the applications for employment at Platt National Park in order to paint a picture of the first years of Platt National Park and show how politics and personality affected federal hiring processes.
Date: Summer 2013
Creator: Castro, J. Justin & Compton, Lindsay
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Thurgood Marshall's "Broom Closet": The Structure of Segregation in McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents (open access)

Thurgood Marshall's "Broom Closet": The Structure of Segregation in McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents

Article examines the circumstances that led up to the court case McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents and how lawyers Thurgood Marshall and Amos T. Hall fought for equal treatment of George McLaurin, an African-American student who was admitted to the University of Oklahoma College of Education in 1948, but physically separated from his classmates and made to enter his classroom through a separate door.
Date: Spring 2019
Creator: Lomazoff, Eric & Gregory, Bailie
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The YWCA's Y-Chapel of Song and the Central Plate (open access)

The YWCA's Y-Chapel of Song and the Central Plate

Article provides details about the fundraising efforts and construction of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA)'s Y-Chapel of Song on the campus of Central State College, now the University of Central Oklahoma.
Date: Spring 2016
Creator: Salkeld, Patrick H.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Don't Knock It: The Holding Company, the Funeral of the Hammer, and the Transformation of Enid, Oklahoma, 1907-12 (open access)

Don't Knock It: The Holding Company, the Funeral of the Hammer, and the Transformation of Enid, Oklahoma, 1907-12

Article details the efforts to industrialize Enid, Oklahoma in the early 1900s by the Enid Industrial & Holding Company, a committee of the Enid Chamber of Commerce.
Date: Spring 2016
Creator: Preston, Aaron
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
“A Romantic Modernist”: William Wayne Caudill and the Work of Caudill Rowlett Scott in Oklahoma (open access)

“A Romantic Modernist”: William Wayne Caudill and the Work of Caudill Rowlett Scott in Oklahoma

Article describes Oklahoma-born architect William Wayne Caudill's career and his contributions to architecture in Oklahoma.
Date: Spring 2014
Creator: Kline, Susan Allen & Savage, Cynthia
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
Sooner State "Boy Wonder": The Oklahoma Roots of Willmoore Kendall's Thought (open access)

Sooner State "Boy Wonder": The Oklahoma Roots of Willmoore Kendall's Thought

Article explores the life and achievements of Willmoore Kendall, and the influence of his Oklahoma upbringing on his conservative political theory.
Date: Spring 2019
Creator: Owen, Christopher H.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Will Rogers in South Africa, 1902-03 (open access)

Will Rogers in South Africa, 1902-03

Article depicts the period of time Will Rogers, "Oklahoma's Favorite Son", spent performing in a Wild West Show in South Africa and how his experiences there impacted his future career.
Date: Winter 2017
Creator: Carter, Joseph H., Sr. & Lefebvre-Carter, Michelle
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farm Crisis in Oklahoma, Part 1 (open access)

Farm Crisis in Oklahoma, Part 1

This article is the first part of a two-part article that examines the effect that economic distress and political policies had on Oklahoma farmers and ranchers during the 1970s and 1980s.
Date: Autumn 2011
Creator: Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Preaching in the "Open Air": The Ministries of Early Pentecostal Women Preachers in Oklahoma (open access)

Preaching in the "Open Air": The Ministries of Early Pentecostal Women Preachers in Oklahoma

This article profiles Dollie York, Lucy Hargis, Grace Curtis, and Ruth Moore, itinerate preachers for the International Pentecostal Holiness Church (IPHC) who used the outdoors as their pulpit for saving souls.
Date: Autumn 2010
Creator: Welch, Kristen D.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 97, Number 1, Spring 2019 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 97, Number 1, Spring 2019

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Spring 2019
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 91, Number 2, Summer 2013 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 91, Number 2, Summer 2013

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Summer 2013
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
One Succeeded, One Did Not: Bacone College and the Oklahoma Presbyterian College, 1910-80 (open access)

One Succeeded, One Did Not: Bacone College and the Oklahoma Presbyterian College, 1910-80

Article explores the success and failure of two American Indian institutions of higher education; Bacone College and Oklahoma Presbyterian College. While Bacone still serves students in the twenty-first century, Oklahoma Presbyterian closed in the 1960s. This article identifies the reasons why Bacone survived, and Oklahoma Presbyterian College did not.
Date: Spring 2013
Creator: Crum, Steven J.
Object Type: Article
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
“Educate or We Perish”: The Armstrong Academy’s History as Part of the Choctaw Educational System (open access)

“Educate or We Perish”: The Armstrong Academy’s History as Part of the Choctaw Educational System

Article explores the evolution of Armstrong Academy, a boarding school for American Indian boys, from its opening in 1845 to its untimely closing in 1920.
Date: Autumn 2011
Creator: Miles, Dennis
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Victory Loan Flying Circus in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, May 2-3, 1919 (open access)

The Victory Loan Flying Circus in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, May 2-3, 1919

Article chronicles the two days that the Flying Circus spent in Oklahoma City and Tulsa in 1919 and emphasizes the impact of its exhibitions on the future of aviation in the state.
Date: Summer 2019
Creator: Roesler, Alan L.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History