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"A Few Hundred People Can't Do Anything with 75 Million!": The Cherokee Advocate and the Inevitability of Allotment
This article chronicles the effort of The Cherokee Advocate newspaper to inform readers about the benefits and perils of assigning land to individuals and to urge Cherokees understand the necessity of allotment.
Date:
Spring 2010
Creator:
Miller, Robert D.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Antisuffragist. Antifeminist! Pro-women? The Anomalous Alice Mary Robertson
Article examining Oklahoma's first woman representative in the United States Congress, Alice Mary Robertson. In this article Robertson's attitudes toward suffrage, feminism, and women at home and in politics, are explored.
Date:
Spring 2010
Creator:
Caldwell, Deah
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Doctor Forrest Pitt Baker and the History of the Eastern Oklahoma Tuberculosis Sanatorium
Article details the first publicly run institution for tuberculosis in the state: the Eastern Oklahoma Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Talihina, Oklahoma. Under the direction of Dr. Forrest Pitt Baker advances were made that improved the lives of Oklahomans who were afflicted with tuberculosis.
Date:
Spring 2011
Creator:
Roberson, Glen R.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The 1969 Oklahoma City Garbage Strike
Article covers the Oklahoma City worker's strike in 1969 when sanitation workers, mostly African Americans, went on strike for higher wages and better working conditions. The article expounds on the reasons for the strike, the attention it received locally and nationally from African American politicians and organizations, and the results of the resolve of the strikers and their supporters.
Date:
Winter 2010
Creator:
Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 91, Number 1, Spring 2013
Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date:
Spring 2013
Creator:
Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Enigma of Mike Monroney
Article provides an overview of the political career of Almer Stillwell "Mike" Monroney, who served the people of Oklahoma in the US House of Representatives and US Senate from 1939 until 1966. The author characterizes Monroney as a level-headed moderate attempting to continue his tenure in office amidst a shift to the conservative right in Oklahoma politics.
Date:
Spring 2013
Creator:
Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
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
Farm Crisis in Oklahoma, Part 2
The second part of a two-part article, this article continues the examination of the effect that economic distress and political policies had on Oklahoma's farmers and ranchers in the 1970s and 1980s.
Date:
Winter 2011
Creator:
Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 96, Number 2, Summer 2018
Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date:
Summer 2018
Creator:
Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sundown on the Prairie: The Extralegal Campaigns and Efforts from 1889 to 1967 to Exclude African Americans from Norman, Oklahoma
Article depicts how Norman used extralegal means to maintain its status as a "sundown town," a place where African Americans were not welcome after dark, well into the mid-twentieth century.
Date:
Autumn 2018
Creator:
Givel, Michael S.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
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
A Brief History of the Oklahoma Poets Laureate
Article explains the importance of the position of poet laureate and evaluates the contributions of the individuals who held that post in Oklahoma.
Date:
Summer 2013
Creator:
Holliday, Shawn
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 89, Number 3, Fall 2011
Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date:
Autumn 2011
Creator:
Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 89, Number 4, Winter 2011-12
Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation. Index to volume 89 starts on page 512.
Date:
Winter 2011
Creator:
Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
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
The Twilight of Route 66: Transitioning from Highway to Freeway, 1956-84
Article takes a closer look at the impact the construction of the interstate highway system had on Route 66, which, like many other historical roads in the area, suffered some negative impacts from the loss of traffic and tourists.
Date:
Autumn 2015
Creator:
Norris, Frank
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Terrible Truth: The Tonkawa Massacre of 1862
Article explores the history of the Tonkawa people in Texas and Oklahoma and illuminates the negative impact Union and Confederate forces caused by not honoring their treaty obligations to protect the Tonkawas from the tribes around them, who they were alienated from by allying themselves with the US government.
Date:
Winter 2019
Creator:
Connole, Joseph
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Shipwrecked in Oklahoma: The Last Voyage of the Steamboat Heroine, 1838
Article explores the history of the steamboat Heroine's last voyage based on the archeological evidence left behind. The Heroine was shipwrecked on the Red River while on a voyage to deliver supplies to Fort Towson in Indian Territory.
Date:
Autumn 2013
Creator:
Crisman, Kevin; Chick, Nina & Davis, John
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"I Can Come Into Your World But You Can't Come Into Mine": John Swanton and Southeastern Oral Narratives
Article describes the life and career of John Reed Swanton, an anthropologist in the early 20th century who researched the oral tradition of Southeastern Native American peoples.
Date:
Spring 2016
Creator:
DeSanti, Brady
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
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
Mummers Theatre: Oklahoma City's Tinker Toy Building
In this article adapted from her Historic American Buildings Survey documentation, Cynthia Savage chronicles the life of the Mummers Theatre building in Oklahoma City.
Date:
Winter 2014
Creator:
Savage, Cynthia
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
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
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
Cultural Diversity and Historic Preservation in Oklahoma
Article shows how the variety of properties associated with different groups of people intersect to showcase the unique cultural identity of the state of Oklahoma. Historic preservation can play a large role in the creation and perpetuation of identity. As the population of Oklahoma becomes more diverse, the properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places reflect the cultures, ethnicities, and organizations represented in the state.
Date:
Autumn 2016
Creator:
Savage, Cynthia
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History