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Money Matters: The Stamp Scrip Movement in Depression-Era Oklahoma (open access)

Money Matters: The Stamp Scrip Movement in Depression-Era Oklahoma

Article expanding on the previous 2004 article on Oklahoma's reaction to the depression era banking crisis of early 1933. In this article, Gatch ties the origin of the scrip movement to the writings of Yale University's professor Irving Fisher and traces the implementation of scrip schemes in nearly three dozen Oklahoma towns and explains the reasons for scrip's early success and rapid demise.
Date: Autumn 2006
Creator: Gatch, Loren C.
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