Eastern Statesman (Wilburton, Okla.), Vol. 89, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 2, 2010 (open access)

Eastern Statesman (Wilburton, Okla.), Vol. 89, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 2, 2010

Bimonthly student newspaper from Eastern Oklahoma State College in Wilburton, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: December 2, 2010
Creator: Akins, Chandra
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Horseless Carriage Rolls into Oklahoma (open access)

The Horseless Carriage Rolls into Oklahoma

Article describes the history of the automobile industry in Oklahoma, focusing on six companies that began producing automobiles in the early 1900s and the advertising methods they used to promote their vehicles.
Date: Winter 2016
Creator: Allen, Gene; Boulton, Don & Davis, Ted R.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Building 3001: Home of the "Gooney Bird" (open access)

Building 3001: Home of the "Gooney Bird"

Article describes the history of Building 3001 at Tinker Air Force Base, where Oklahoman workers produced thousands of C-47 military aircraft during World War II. The building was nicknamed the "Gooney Bird" after the Albatross, clumsy on the ground but beautiful in flight.
Date: Autumn 2013
Creator: Allin, Lawrence Carroll
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
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, Summer 2016 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Summer 2016

Notes and Documents column including a short article that describes the Oklahoma Historical Society artifact collections utilized in the exhibit "Crossroads of Commerce: A History of Free Enterprise in Oklahoma," which tells the story of commerce in Oklahoma from 1719 to present day.
Date: Summer 2016
Creator: Bass, Elizabeth M. B.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Spring 2011 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Spring 2011

Notes and Documents column including biographical information about Jim Argo, Sandie Olson, Juanita Keel Tate, and Alvin O. Turner, the inductees into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2011, and provides a chronological list of the past inductees into the hall of fame. The section also includes "The Ragland Collection" which presents a selection of maps from the efforts of Reverend Hobart Ragland to document historic sites within Oklahoma.
Date: Spring 2011
Creator: Bass, Elizabeth M. B. & Welge, William D.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Corrections, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 90, Number 2, Summer 2012 (open access)

Corrections, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 90, Number 2, Summer 2012

Corrections section from Volume 90, Number 2, Summer 2012. It includes two corrections for Jeffrey Widener's article, "From Bard to Speculator: Alexander Lawrence Posey and the Muscogee Nation, 1902-08." from Volume 90, Number 1, Spring 2012.
Date: Summer 2012
Creator: Bass, Elizabeth M. B. & Widener, Jeffrey M.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Summer 2010 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Summer 2010

Notes and Documents column including "Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame," an article honoring the individuals who were inducted into the annual Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2010. The honorees included Currie Ballard, Bob Burke, General Thomas P. Stafford, and Dr. Lewis Stiles. It also includes "Alva, Oklahoma: What's in a Name?" an article examining the naming of the town of Alva, Oklahoma, to determine whether it was named for the railroad attorney Alva Adams. Finally, it includes "Oklahoma Newspaper Project," which details the Oklahoma Historical Society's partnership with the University of North Texas and the Oklahoma Press Association to digitize newspapers that reflect Oklahoma's history.
Date: Summer 2010
Creator: Baxter, Elizabeth M.; Reichenberger, Donovan & Jerome, Angela
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Custer's Last Campaign of Sheridan's 1868-69 Winter Offensive (open access)

Custer's Last Campaign of Sheridan's 1868-69 Winter Offensive

Article explores the written accounts of the Sheridan Winter Offensive campaign of 1868-1869 and provides prospective answers to the nearly 150-year-old question of the route the regiment traveled.
Date: Winter 2012
Creator: Beemer, Rod
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Winter 2018-19 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Winter 2018-19

Notes and Documents column including a document by written by Michael Bell about Oklahoma congressman James V. McClintic and the items he obtained and donated to the Oklahoma History Center from his travels in Europe after World War I.
Date: Winter 2018
Creator: Bell, Michael
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Winter 2011-12 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Winter 2011-12

Notes and Documents column including "An Analysis of the Variants of the Okmulgee Constitution," a short article detailing the creation of the Okmulgee Constitution.
Date: Winter 2011
Creator: Bernholz, Charles D.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Leon C. Phillips and the Drive to Balance Oklahoma's Budget (open access)

Leon C. Phillips and the Drive to Balance Oklahoma's Budget

Article describes the political campaign of Governor Leon C. Phillips to balance the state's budget with the passage of an amendment to the Oklahoma Constitution and the debate than ensued in the Oklahoma Legislature over the subject.
Date: Summer 2017
Creator: Beu, Eric E.
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
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
Fred Harris's New Populism and the Demise of Heartland Liberalism (open access)

Fred Harris's New Populism and the Demise of Heartland Liberalism

Article uses the failure of Oklahoma Democrat Fred Harris's New Populism to show twentieth century liberalism's accommodation of corporate power as well as the racial climate of the 1970s.
Date: Summer 2010
Creator: Bloodworth, Jeff
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Maurice Halperin: From Sooner Subversive to Soviet Spy (open access)

Maurice Halperin: From Sooner Subversive to Soviet Spy

Article chronicles the investigation into Maurice Halperin and other suspected Communist spies, and the eventual release of information proving Halperin's guilt.
Date: Summer 2018
Creator: Brewer, Landry
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Missiles of Oklahoma: Southwest Oklahoma's Role in the American Cold Way Nuclear Arsenal, 1960-65 (open access)

The Missiles of Oklahoma: Southwest Oklahoma's Role in the American Cold Way Nuclear Arsenal, 1960-65

Article describes Oklahoma's role in American nuclear development during the Cold War era. While also providing historical background, Landry Brewer focuses on the construction and development of twelve intercontinental ballistic missile sites in southwest Oklahoma along with the hub at Altus Air Force Base.
Date: Autumn 2017
Creator: Brewer, Landry
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
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Friday, April 4, 2014 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Friday, April 4, 2014

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 4, 2014
Creator: Bright, James
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Friday, April 5, 2013 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Friday, April 5, 2013

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 5, 2013
Creator: Bright, James
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Friday, April 11, 2014 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Friday, April 11, 2014

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 11, 2014
Creator: Bright, James
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Friday, April 12, 2013 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Friday, April 12, 2013

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 12, 2013
Creator: Bright, James
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Friday, April 18, 2014 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Friday, April 18, 2014

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 18, 2014
Creator: Bright, James
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Friday, April 19, 2013 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Friday, April 19, 2013

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Bright, James
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History