Serial/Series Title

Notes and Documents, Spring 2014 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Spring 2014

Notes and Documents column including Nicole Harvey's "From “Grand Excursion” to the “Fall of Babylon”: Oklahoma City’s First Fourth of July Celebration" which explores Oklahoma's first celebration of the Fourth of July in 1889. It also includes Paul Lambert's "The Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame: Kenny L. Brown and Loretta Y. Jackson" which honors two of the 2014 inductees into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame.
Date: Spring 2014
Creator: Harvey, Nicole & Lambert, Paul F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Summer 2014 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Summer 2014

Notes and Documents column including a short article honoring Linda Williams Reese and Mary Jane Warde, two of the inductees into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2013. It also includes "The Story of the Location of the Capital" that was written by Thomas F. Mechan in 1913 and provides an account of Oklahoma politics during the state's early days.
Date: Summer 2014
Creator: Lambert, Paul F.; Bass, Elizabeth M. B.; McMechan, Thomas F. & Williams, Chad
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Winter 2014-15 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Winter 2014-15

Notes and Documents column including prophecies from the Oklahoma Century Chest, hundred-year predictions written in 1913 about the fields of religion, journalism, medicine, law, and education, as well as letters addressed to the leaders of banking and court leaders in 2013.
Date: Winter 2014
Creator: Williams, Chad
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Fall 2014 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Fall 2014

Notes and Documents column including the previously unknown manuscript titled "The First Week in Oklahoma City" by Angelo C. Scott with an introduction by Chad Williams. The manuscript provides a firsthand account of the creation of Oklahoma City in the days immediately following the Land Run of 1889.
Date: Autumn 2014
Creator: Williams, Chad & Scott, Angelo C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History