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Will Rogers High School: The Public Works Administration, Progressive Education, and a Modern School
This article details the pedagogical planning and architectural design of Tulsa's Will Rogers High School.
Date:
Winter 2007
Creator:
Ambler, Cathy
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
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Reading Room of Their Own: Library Services for African Americans in Oklahoma, 1907-1946
Article discussing the struggles African American Oklahomans faced for access to public library services. The first forty years of statehood brought a few successes, and by mid-century only eleven communities provided a public library facility for the state's black citizens.
Date:
Autumn 2006
Creator:
Cassity, R. O. Joe, Jr.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
First Hospitals in Tulsa
Article chronicles the establishment of the Tulsa Hospital Association and the subsequent first hospitals within the city.
Date:
Spring 1944
Creator:
Clinton, Fred S.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
From Brush Arbor to Boston Avenue: The First Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Tulsa, Indian Territory
Article chronicles the establishment of the First Methodist Episcopal Church within Tulsa, Oklahoma through correspondence between the missionaries who worked in the area and conferences that established the institution within Indian Territory.
Date:
Autumn 1943
Creator:
Clinton, Fred S.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
James Hugh McBirney: 1870-1944
Article chronicles the career of James Hugh McBirney, bookkeeper of the Tulsa Banking Company, the first banking institution in the city of Tulsa.
Date:
Autumn 1944
Creator:
Clinton, Fred S.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Necrology, Fall 1952
Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died; this issue discusses the life of active community member Mrs. Lee Clinton, who was part of many educational and social clubs in early Tulsa.
Date:
Autumn 1952
Creator:
Clinton, Fred S.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Tulsa's Water Resources - Spring and Spavinaw
Article chronicles how the first water systems were created within Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Date:
Spring 1945
Creator:
Clinton, Fred S.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Note and Documents, Spring 1981
Notes and Documents column including a personal narrative written by Nettie DeMoss about her experiences growing up in Indian Territory. Norman Crowe, editor of the document, provides an introduction to the piece.
Date:
Spring 1981
Creator:
DeMoss, Nettie & Crowe, Norman
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Harry Campbell
Article provides a biographical sketch of the life and career of Judge Henry Campbell, a civil and legal leader for the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Charles Evans includes some of the man's reminiscences after describing his many contributions.
Date:
Winter 1950
Creator:
Evans, Charles
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Confederate Victory at Chusto-Talasah
Article details how the Five Civilized Tribes contributed to the Confederate victory at Chusto-Talasah, a battle fought in Indian Territory during the Civil War.
Date:
Winter 1971
Creator:
Fischer, LeRoy H. & Franks, Kenny A. (Kenny Arthur), 1945-
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
One Hundred Years Ago in the Region of Tulsa
Article reports on the conditions of the Indian Territory as told by surveyors a hundred years from the date this article was published. These surveyors were tasked with determining whether the region was fit enough to relocate the Creek tribes to after their removal from the east.
Date:
Summer 1933
Creator:
Gardner, James H.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Meeting of Conquerors: Art Goebel and Charles Lindbergh in Tulsa, 1927
Article recounts the meeting of Art Gobel and Charles A. Lindbergh in Tulsa in September 1927. Both aviators, Goebel was known as "The Conqueror of the Pacific," while Lindbergh was "The Conqueror of the Atlantic." Their meeting and behavior toward Oklahomans revealed much about each man's character and personality and about the American practice of hero making.
Date:
Spring 2007
Creator:
Hedglen, Thomas
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Civilian Conservation Corps in the City: Tulsa and Oklahoma City in the 1930s
Article explores the history of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. The Corps, formed as a part of New Deal relief labor programs, developed three urban parks in the area.
Date:
Autumn 1975
Creator:
Holland, Reid A.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
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
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Judge Royce H. Savage
Article asserts that despite the controversy surrounding Judge Royce Savage's retirement from the Northern District Court, the judge's reputation for case management and dedication to pretrial conferences remains intact.
Date:
Spring 2011
Creator:
Kellough, William C.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
There is No Place like The Home: A Brief History of the Tulsa Boys' Home
Article provides historical context for the creation of the Tulsa Boys' Home in 1918 for troubled and orphaned boys. Michael Lail describes the institutions that founded the home, namely the Tulsa Rotary Club and the First Presbyterian Church, and the growth and movement of The Home itself over the years.
Date:
Summer 2001
Creator:
Lail, Michael
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The William Penn Elm Tree
Article is a speech given by Mrs. Roberta Campbell Lawson when she donated an elm tree to the University of Tulsa to commemorate the famous treaty made between William Peen and the Delaware tribe.
Date:
Summer 1933
Creator:
Lawson, Roberta Campbell
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"Hoorah for Integration!": The Adoption of the 1955 Better Schools Amendment
This article examines the campaign led by Governor Raymond D. Gary to adopt a constitutional amendment ending the time-honored special tax for separate schools and begin the process of integration after the Supreme Court Decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
Date:
Summer 2007
Creator:
Lough, Keith D.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
From Termination to Self-Determination: Indian Health in Oklahoma, 1954-1980, Part 1
Article evaluates the problems of Indian health care and the campaign led by Senator Fred Harris and others to correct a record of neglect.
Date:
Winter 2007
Creator:
Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
From Termination to Self-Determination: Indian Health in Oklahoma, 1954-1980, Part 2
The second part of this two-part article continues the evaluation of the problems in Indian healthcare and the campaign led by Senators Fred Harris and Dewey Bartlett to correct a record of neglect. The healthcare problem after 1970 was linked to a new federal policy of tribal self-determination.
Date:
Spring 2008
Creator:
Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Power for the People: Developing the Grand River Dam Authority, Part 2, 1945-1964
This article is the second part of a two-part article on the Grand River Dam Authority. In this part, the author analyzes the state agency's history after World War II. Only one-third complete in 1945, the GRDA operated only Pensacola Dam. Over the next three decades Senators Elmer Thomas and Robert S. Kerr guided the federal legislation that would allow the Authority to complete its flood control dams and power generation/distribution facilities in the watershed of the Grand River.
Date:
Autumn 2009
Creator:
Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Dark Spot on the Sunbelt: Economic Stagnation and Political Corruption in 1950s Oklahoma
Article examines the roles of negative self-image and political corruption on the stagnation of Oklahoma's economic health in the 1950s.
Date:
Summer 2007
Creator:
McGoy, Matthew G.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
From Parker to Poe: Being a Brief Sketch of the Early Judiciary of Tulsa County
Article chronicles the judiciary systems set in place within Tulsa county throughout the Spanish, American, and French ownership of the region.
Date:
Spring 1938
Creator:
Meserve, John Bartlett, 1869-1943
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History