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Moses or Aaron?: William Jennings Bryan and Oklahoma Politics
Article explores the political influence William Jennings Bryan had on the creation of Oklahoma's state constitution, and questions whether Bryan took the leading role of the biblical Moses in influencing decisions surrounding it, or the translator's role of Aaron to give the Oklahoma legislature's own agenda substance.
Date:
Spring 2004
Creator:
Adkison, Danny M.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Ensign L. L. Culver: "You can call me salty now"
Article recounts the life and rigorous training experience of undertaker-turned-ensign L.L. Culver in the United States navy in the early years of World War II. Brad Agnew reconstructs the officer's experiences from letters sent home, and concludes the article with the beginning of a journey that is continued in the Spring 2003 issue of The Chronicles of Oklahoma.
Date:
Winter 2002
Creator:
Agnew, Brad
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
L. L. Culver: A Naked Warrior in the Second World War
Article follows the continuation of Ensign L. L. Culver's journey from its first part in the Winter 2002-03 issue of The Chronicles of Oklahoma. Brad Agnew describes Culver's service in the Scouts and Raiders, a joint army-navy unit that participated in World War II amphibious assaults, his military successes, and his return home with the conclusion of the war.
Date:
Spring 2003
Creator:
Agnew, Brad
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sustaining the Cherokee's Lamp of Enlightenment: The Establishment of Northeastern State Normal School
Article describes the political and social process of convincing the legislature to place one of the state's normal schools, or teachers' colleges, in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. By this process local citizens of Tahlequah secured Northeastern State Normal School for their town.
Date:
Winter 2008
Creator:
Agnew, Brad
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
J. A. Webb: Early-Day Cotton Breeder from Union City, Oklahoma
Article recounts the talented amateur agronomist J. A. Webb's diligent work to perfect a better variety of cotton, which he marketed as Webb's Purple cotton seed beginning in 1933.
Date:
Winter 2006
Creator:
Albers-Nelson, M. Rene & Verhalen, Laval M.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
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
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Spring 2006
Notes and Documents column including a short document describing the history and contents of the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce Collection that was donated to the Oklahoma Historical Society in 1994. It also includes a short description of the Henry and Cunningham Mercantile Company Collection manuscripts located in the Research Division of the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Date:
Spring 2006
Creator:
Anderson, Clayton; Everett, Dianna & O'Dell, Larry
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Reluctant Heir: Carl Albert, Watergate, and the American Presidency
Article details Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Carl Bert Albert's decision to eschew the ultimate leadership role and recommend Rep. Gerald R. Ford as Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's successor after Agnew resigned in disgrace in 1973.
Date:
Autumn 2007
Creator:
Anderson, Heath
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Note and Documents, Spring 2002
Notes and Documents column including a document honoring Charles Banks Wilson, who was inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2002.
Date:
Spring 2002
Creator:
Armstrong, Connie G.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Fall 2002
Notes and Documents column including a document honoring George H. Shirk, who was inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2002.
Date:
Autumn 2002
Creator:
Armstrong, Connie G.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Spring 2003
Notes and Documents column including a document honoring Louis F. Burns, who was inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2003.
Date:
Spring 2003
Creator:
Armstrong, Connie G.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Summer 2001
Notes and Documents column including a document honoring Carolyn Thomas Foreman, who was inducted into the annual Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2001. The document lists the projects she created, such as the Indian-Pioneer History Project, as well as the books and articles she published.
Date:
Summer 2001
Creator:
Armstrong, Connie G.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Winter 2002-03
Notes and Documents column including a document honoring John Womack, who was inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2002.
Date:
Winter 2002
Creator:
Armstrong, Connie G.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Winter 2001-02
Notes and Documents column including a document honoring Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., who was inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2001. It also includes a document about a letter Woodie Guthrie wrote to his first niece, Mary Ann Guthrie, which was donated and included.
Date:
Winter 2001
Creator:
Armstrong, Connie G. & Blochowiak, Mary Ann
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Summer 2002
Notes and Documents column including a document honoring Annie Heloise Abel, who was inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2002. It also includes an article about Thomas P. Stafford, an astronaut from Oklahoma who participated in the space race of the 1960s.
Date:
Summer 2002
Creator:
Armstrong, Connie G. & Moore, Bill
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Fall 2001
Notes and Documents column including a document honoring Louis H. Coleman, who was inducted into the annual Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2001. It also includes a document about the Garrison quilt, a quilt donated by the great-grandson of Stephen A. Lewis, the Union soldier who created it, and a document that provides a descriptive bibliography of secondary sources related to the Green Corn Rebellion.
Date:
Autumn 2001
Creator:
Armstrong, Connie G.; Winchester, Jean A. & Hanne, Daniel
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Forgotten Founder: Charles G. "Gristmill" Jones and the Growth of Oklahoma City, 1889-1911
Article discusses the life and pursuits of Oklahoma City founder Charles Jones. As a businessman and an important political figure, his development of canals, railroads, and state fairs in Oklahoma City and his dedication to its growth made lasting impact in the early years of its creation.
Date:
Spring 2002
Creator:
Bachhofer, Aaron, II
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Researching Tom Joad: John Steinbeck, Journalist, 1936
Article examines John Steinbeck's brief career as a depression-era journalist and his nonfiction work on the working conditions of migrant laborers in California that inspired his greatest literary achievement, The Grapes of Wrath.
Date:
Spring 2005
Creator:
Bailey, Paul
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"Forget the Cowboys, We'll Take the Indians": The Red Earth Festival Movement, 1985-1987
Article detailing the Red Earth Festival Movement (1985-1987) that led to the festival's inception. The festival owes its genesis to the dedication of a small cadre of local civic, arts, and political leaders who envisioned a multi-tribal exposition of American Indian dance, arts, and crafts. Since its inception in 1987 the Red Earth Festival has become a staple of Oklahoma City's tourism scene.
Date:
Autumn 2009
Creator:
Barker Harrison, Felicia
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"A Model Fruit Ranch": The Housholder Fruit Farm of Guthrie, Oklahoma
Article written by Joe Bax, Glen Housholder's grandson, provides a portrait of the Householder Fruit Farm and the family's tremendous successes amid struggles against railroads, commission merchants, and Oklahoma's sometimes fickle weather.
Date:
Autumn 2004
Creator:
Bax, Joe G.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Jack C. Montgomery: A Little Big Man
Article documents the life of Jack Montgomery and recalls his service with the Forty-fifth Infantry Division in World War II, where he received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the war.
Date:
Winter 2004
Creator:
Bean, Christopher B.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"No Home on the Range": The Miller Family's Great Swindle of Indian Lands
Article describes the unfair methods the Miller Family, owners of the 101 Ranch, employed to acquire land in the Cherokee Outlet from the Western Cherokee Indians who had received it from the United States government in 1928. Jo L. Wetherilt Behrens recounts the details of the various schemes and ruses the Millers employed to take advantage of their neighboring tribes.
Date:
Summer 2004
Creator:
Behrens, Jo Lea Wetherilt
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Lela L. Barnett: An Oklahoma WAC in World War II Italy
Article describes the life of Lela Barnett, one of the first members of the Women's Army Corps during World War II, through letters sent home to her mother. From training and service in Italy, to her adventures as a civilian employee, to her eventual return to Oklahoma to work as a librarian at Fort Sill, Ralph Gregory Barnett records his aunt's eventful life.
Date:
Autumn 2005
Creator:
Beil, Raph Gregory
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Bad Water and Epidemics: The Wages of Neglect at the Seneca Indian School
Article analyzes the issues of poor federal management and general neglect of health and sanitation that put Indian students' lives in jeopardy at Seneca Indian School and at the nation's other Indian schools in the early twentieth century.
Date:
Spring 2009
Creator:
Bieloh, Christina
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History