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 97, Number 2, Summer 2019 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 97, Number 2, Summer 2019

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Summer 2019
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 97, Number 3, Fall 2019 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 97, Number 3, Fall 2019

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Autumn 2019
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 97, Number 4, Winter 2019-20 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 97, Number 4, Winter 2019-20

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation. Index starts on page 507.
Date: Winter 2019
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Fort Sill and the Birth of US Combat Aviation (open access)

Fort Sill and the Birth of US Combat Aviation

Article covers the history of Fort Sill as an aircraft, artillery unit, and observation balloon training center throughout both World War I and World War II, providing historical context for its importance in the field of military aviation.
Date: Spring 2019
Creator: Wikle, Thomas A.
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
Marking the Butterfield: Retracing the Indian Territory Segment of the 1858-61 Butterfield Overland Mail Stagecoach Road (open access)

Marking the Butterfield: Retracing the Indian Territory Segment of the 1858-61 Butterfield Overland Mail Stagecoach Road

In 2018 the National Park Service recommended that the Butterfield Overland Mail Stagecoach Road be designated a National Historic Trail. Sixty years earlier, OHS staff marked this important trade and transit route with historical markers. This article retraces the road, describing the landmarks as they appeared on the 1958 trek as well as their present conditions.
Date: Spring 2019
Creator: Dragoo, Susan Penn
Object Type: Article
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
For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 97, Number 1, Spring 2019 (open access)

For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 97, Number 1, Spring 2019

For the Record section from Volume 97, Number 1, Spring 2019. It includes the Minutes of the Quarterly Board Meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on October 24, 2018. It also includes the following lists: "New Members, October-November-December 2018" and "Twenty-Year Members, October-November-December 2018."
Date: Spring 2019
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 97, Number 1, Spring 2019 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 97, Number 1, Spring 2019

Notes and Documents section from Volume 97, Number 1, Spring 2019. It includes Larry O'Dell's "Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame," which provides short biographical sketches of Dianna Everett, Helen Freudenberger Holmes, Emmy Scott Stidham, and Mary Jo Watson, the 2019 inductees into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame.
Date: Spring 2019
Creator: O'Dell, Larry
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Daughter of Dawn and the Promotion of American Indian Culture (open access)

The Daughter of Dawn and the Promotion of American Indian Culture

Article posits that "The Daughter of Dawn" was used as a tool to preserve and promote aspects of American Indian culture to a broad, movie-going audience.
Date: Summer 2019
Creator: Bevitt, Wendi M.
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
West Edwards Days: African Americans in Territorial Edmond (open access)

West Edwards Days: African Americans in Territorial Edmond

Article describes the nearly forgotten African American community centered around West Edwards Street in territorial Edmond.
Date: Summer 2019
Creator: Lehman, Christopher P.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
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
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 97, Number 2, Summer 2019 (open access)

For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 97, Number 2, Summer 2019

For the Record section from Volume 97, Number 2, Summer 2019. It includes the Minutes of the Quarterly Board Meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on January 23, 2019, and the Minutes of a Special Board Meeting that was held on March 20, 2019. It also includes the following lists: "New Members, January-February-March 2019" and "Twenty-Year Members, January-February-March 2019."
Date: Summer 2019
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 97, Number 2, Summer 2019 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 97, Number 2, Summer 2019

Notes and Documents section from Volume 97, Number 2, Summer 2019. It includes Phil Sutton's 'That Man Stone Photography: "Anything, Any time, Anywhere,'" a short document describing the history of That Man Stone Company, one of the most prolific photography studios before, and after, Oklahoma became a state.
Date: Summer 2019
Creator: Sutton, Phil
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
How America's Destiny Became Manifest (open access)

How America's Destiny Became Manifest

Article discusses the implications of Manifest Destiny and the Whipple Expedition, particularly the imagery created by the group's artist, Heinrich Möllhausen.
Date: Autumn 2019
Creator: Kidwell, Clara Sue
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Reading Prestatehood Muskogee: Racial-Political Discourse in American Indian, African American, and White Newspapers, 1905-07 (open access)

Reading Prestatehood Muskogee: Racial-Political Discourse in American Indian, African American, and White Newspapers, 1905-07

Article discusses prestatehood Muskogee, Oklahoma and the establishment of four newspapers catering to different demographics of the racially diverse population, as well as the implications of the issues these papers debated.
Date: Autumn 2019
Creator: Person, Angela M.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
An Unflinching Call for Freedom: Clara Luper's Pedagogy at the Center of Sit-Ins (open access)

An Unflinching Call for Freedom: Clara Luper's Pedagogy at the Center of Sit-Ins

Article describes the life and influence of Clara Luper, a teacher and adviser for the NAACP Youth Council who worked with students to obtain civil rights and the desegregation of Oklahoma City.
Date: Autumn 2019
Creator: Watson, Rachel E.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Aunt Maggie and the Child Welfare Special (open access)

Aunt Maggie and the Child Welfare Special

Article describes the traveling health caravan known as the Child Welfare Special and the founding of the United States Children's Welfare Bureau. Dan Lawrence explores how Dr. Maggie Koenig, one of the members of the traveling health clinic, contributed to the history of public health education.
Date: Autumn 2019
Creator: Lawrence, Dan
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 97, Number 3, Fall 2019 (open access)

For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 97, Number 3, Fall 2019

For the Record section from Volume 97, Number 3, Fall 2019. It includes the Minutes of the Quarterly Board Meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on April 24, 2019, the Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Membership that was held on April 25, 2019, and the Minutes of the Organizational Board Meeting that was held on April 25, 2019. It also includes the following lists: "New Members, April-May-June 2019" and "Twenty-Year Members, April-May-June 2019."
Date: Autumn 2019
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 97, Number 3, Fall 2019 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 97, Number 3, Fall 2019

Notes and Documents section from Volume 97, Number 3, Fall 2019. It includes John Truden's "The Great Southeastern Oklahoma Elephant Hunt," a short document describing the efforts to recapture two Asian elephants that escaped from the Carson and Barnes Circus near Hugo, Oklahoma, in July of 1975.
Date: Autumn 2019
Creator: Truden, John
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
On the Cutting Edge of Public Education: The Frontiers of Science Foundation of Oklahoma (open access)

On the Cutting Edge of Public Education: The Frontiers of Science Foundation of Oklahoma

Article describes the growth and reform of school curriculum in the areas of math and science in the 1950s, and how the Frontier of Science Foundation of Oklahoma group contributed to these changes.
Date: Winter 2019
Creator: Moore, Ricki J. & Brown, Pamela Unruh
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Birthday of the Klan: The Tulsa Outrage of 1917 (open access)

Birthday of the Klan: The Tulsa Outrage of 1917

Article describes the events that led to the Tulsa Outrage of 1917, including the emergence of the "Knights of Liberty" a vigilante group grown from the Tulsa Council of Defense which persecuted members of labor organizations and whose actions foreshadowed later violence committed by the Ku Klux Klan.
Date: Winter 2019
Creator: Hopkins, Randy
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History