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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
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.
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
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Janet St. James Article (open access)

Janet St. James Article

This article is a short biography of former TV journalist Janet St. James describing her career, including her work reporting on the Oklahoma City Bombing and covering police and medical stories in Dallas. It also highlights some aspects of St. James' life and her thoughts about journalism.
Date: December 3, 2018
Creator: Burns, Brady; Owens, Brittany; Reyes, Blanca & Maxwell, Bailey
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Politics of Cherokee Removal (open access)

The Politics of Cherokee Removal

Article explores the political context of removal of the Cherokee tribe from their native lands by examining not only relations between the US government and the Cherokee Nation, but also the internal conflict within the US government that contributed to the process.
Date: Autumn 2018
Creator: Byas, Steve
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Spring 2018 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Spring 2018

Notes and Documents column including "Oklahoma Through the Lens of Z. P. Meyers," a short article recounting the life and career of Zenas Phillip Meyers, professional photographer who owned and operated Meyers Photo Shop in Oklahoma City from 1928-1962. Today his surviving prints and negatives are archived at the Oklahoma Historical Society as part of the Z. P. Meyers/Barney Hillerman Photographic Collection.
Date: Spring 2018
Creator: Cornelius, Jerry L. & Sutton, Phil
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Bad Men and Good Bad Men: Outlaws in the Twin Territories and Their Influence on the Hollywood Outlaw (open access)

Bad Men and Good Bad Men: Outlaws in the Twin Territories and Their Influence on the Hollywood Outlaw

Article contrasts the romanticized Hollywood image of the outlaw popular in Western films and fiction with the brutal reality of several gangs of outlaws as well as a handful of notable individuals active in Oklahoma and Indian Territories in the late nineteenth centuries.
Date: Winter 2018
Creator: Girkin, Clinton
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 (open access)

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.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Banking in Oklahoma's Smallest Certified City: Alva State Bank and Trust Company, Freedom Branch (open access)

Banking in Oklahoma's Smallest Certified City: Alva State Bank and Trust Company, Freedom Branch

Article examines the history of community banking in Freedom, Oklahoma through interviews conducted by the author in support of the Oklahoma History Center's Crossroads of Commerce: A History of Free Enterprise in Oklahoma exhibit. Michael J. Hightower explores the growth of industry and banking in Oklahoma's smallest city.
Date: Spring 2018
Creator: Hightower, Michael J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Houston's Most Handsome Men Strut the Runway For a Vital Women's Cause (open access)

Houston's Most Handsome Men Strut the Runway For a Vital Women's Cause

Article about the 20th "Una Notte in Italia" event held in Houston, Texas.
Date: November 6, 2018
Creator: Hodge, Shelby
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History -- Heather Hays (open access)

Oral History -- Heather Hays

This article is a short biography of news anchor Heather Hays describing her education and career, as well as her perspectives on technology and social media in relation to journalism.
Date: December 4, 2018
Creator: Hooi-Rodriguez, Nicole
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mollie Finch Belt - A Voice to the Voiceless (open access)

Mollie Finch Belt - A Voice to the Voiceless

This article is a short biography of reporter Mollie Finch-Belt who runs The Dallas Examiner newspaper, which was founded by her father. It describs Belt's previous background in civil rights, challenges in taking over the paper, and her viws on journalism.
Date: Autumn 2018
Creator: Johnson, Jasmine C.; Wells, Amani; Young, Kelcei & Moore, Briana
System: The UNT Digital Library
Simon Ralph "S.R." Walkingstick: A Cherokee Leader (open access)

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.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Cherokee National Female Seminary Principal Teacher Etta Jane Rider and Her Assistant Teachers, 1901-04 (open access)

Cherokee National Female Seminary Principal Teacher Etta Jane Rider and Her Assistant Teachers, 1901-04

Article provides a biographical tribute to Etta Jane Rider, principal teacher of the Cherokee National Female Seminary from 1901-1904, and to the assistant teachers who joined her in educating young Cherokee women.
Date: Winter 2018
Creator: McCullagh, James G. & Davis, James S.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Nancy Black: Continuing the Fight (open access)

Nancy Black: Continuing the Fight

This article is a short biography of Nancy Black describing her background and how she ended up in journalism, writing news at several outlets and later starting her own paper, the White Rock Lake Weekly.
Date: Autumn 2018
Creator: Moore, Brianna
System: The UNT Digital Library
How W.K. Maxfield and the Doughboys from Southwest Oklahoma Helped Bring an End to the First World War (open access)

How W.K. Maxfield and the Doughboys from Southwest Oklahoma Helped Bring an End to the First World War

Article uses the story of W. K. Maxfield to share the exploits of the 36th Infantry Division at the Battle of Saint-Étienne during World War I.
Date: Summer 2018
Creator: Neighbors, Phil
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Better Royalties: Federal Policy, the Quapaw Tribe, and Self-Determination, 1900-70 (open access)

Better Royalties: Federal Policy, the Quapaw Tribe, and Self-Determination, 1900-70

Article covers the struggle the Quapaw Tribe faced to obtain fair mining leases in the rich mining region they had been relocated to in northeastern Oklahoma, as well as to attain rights to self-determination despite suppression by federal policy.
Date: Winter 2018
Creator: Nolan, Raymond Anthony
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Fall 2018 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Fall 2018

Notes and Documents column including a document honoring Sandra Stratton and Nudie Williams, who were inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2018.
Date: Autumn 2018
Creator: O'Dell, Larry
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Summer 2018 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Summer 2018

Notes and Documents column including a short article honoring Henrietta Mann and Bill Moore, two of the inductees into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2018.
Date: Summer 2018
Creator: O'Dell, Larry
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Fall 2018 (open access)

For the Record, Fall 2018

For the Record section including the minutes of the OHS quarterly board meeting, annual meeting of the membership, special board meeting, and a list of new members and twenty year members from April to June 2018.
Date: Autumn 2018
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Spring 2018 (open access)

For the Record, Spring 2018

For the Record section including the minutes of the quarterly board meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on October 25, 2017 as well as the following lists: "New Members, October-November-December 2017" and "Twenty-Year-Members, October-November-December 2017."
Date: Spring 2018
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Summer 2018 (open access)

For the Record, Summer 2018

For the Record section including the minutes of the quarterly board meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on January 24, 2018 as well as the following lists: "New Members, January-February-March 2018" and "Twenty-Year-Members, January-February-March 2018."
Date: Summer 2018
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Winter 2018-19 (open access)

For the Record, Winter 2018-19

For the Record section including the minutes of the regular quarterly board meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on July 25, 2018 and lists of new members and twenty-year members from July to September 2018.
Date: Winter 2018
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oral History -- Cheryl Hall (open access)

Oral History -- Cheryl Hall

This article is a short biography of journalist Cheryl Hall describing her childhood -- including a period of time soon after World War II when her family lived in Japan -- as well as her education and hightlights from her career. Hall also talks about her perspectives and advice regarding the journalism field, and her plans for the future.
Date: December 4, 2018
Creator: Poteet, Maddison; Sarder, Sarah; Booth, Megan & Matthew, Sarah
System: The UNT Digital Library