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Shortchanged: Uncovering the Value of Pre-Removal Cherokee Property
This article estimates the value of the Cherokee's land and other property that was lost due to the tribe's removal to Indian Territory. Economist Matthew Gregg has performed a detailed mathematical analysis of land sale records in Tennessee, North Carolina, Alabama, and Georgia around the time of removal. He arrives at an assessment that is consonant with Cherokee Chief John Ross's 1838 figure.
Date:
Autumn 2009
Creator:
Gregg, Matthew T.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
William Meredith Cunningham: An Oklahoma Proletariat Novelist
Article presents a biography of William Cunnigham and reveals the ways in which his novels, poetry, and other writings championed the industrial-agricultural working class of his native state of Oklahoma.
Date:
Autumn 2008
Creator:
O'Dell, Larry
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Modern Response to the Cold War: Paul Harris and the Lawton National Guard Armory
Article delineates the conceptualization and design of the modern architectural masterpiece created by architect Paul Harris for the Forty-fifth Infantry Division of the Oklahoma National Guard in Lawton, Oklahoma.
Date:
Winter 2008
Creator:
Savage, Cynthia
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"We Complacently Drink the Fruit of the Lotus Bowl": Deciding on the Oklahoma City Floodway, 1946-1953
Article recounts the struggle for federal funds to straighten and safely channel the North Canadian River through the growing urban area of Oklahoma City. Designed and planned from 1946 to 1953, the Oklahoma City Floodway was dedicated on March 31, 1958.
Date:
Autumn 2007
Creator:
Payne, Adam A.
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
Setbacks and Successes: Cameron University's Library, 1909-2000
Article examines the Cameron library's policies for collections development, materials access, and constant improvement of buildings that helped this important regional institution reach full university status.
Date:
Autumn 2007
Creator:
Young, Sheridan Eleanor
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
So That a Nation May Live: The Pawnee Ghost Dance and Cultural Renaissance
This article describes the early development of the Ghost Dance among the Pawnees and traces the ceremony's continuance into the twenty-first century.
Date:
Autumn 2007
Creator:
Leahy, Todd E.
Object Type:
Article
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
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sobering News: Choctaw Temperance Reporting and Civic Journalism
This article compares modern "civic journalism" with its nineteenth-century counterpart by examining editorial positions on the temperance movement as printed in the pages of the Choctaw Telegraph and the Choctaw Intelligencer. The two journals campaigned against alcohol in the Choctaw Nation.
Date:
Autumn 2006
Creator:
Mize, Richard
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 83, Number 4, Winter 2005-06
Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation. Index for the volume begins on page 516.
Date:
Winter 2005
Creator:
Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
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
Ragtown: Wirt, Oklahoma, and the Healdton Boom
Article describes the growth and subsequent problems of the Oklahoma oil-boom town of Wirt in Carter County, also known as Ragtown. Emerging overnight as the center of the Healdton Field, Ragtown provided shelter and work for hundreds of assorted oil-field characters.
Date:
Spring 2009
Creator:
Freeman, Elizabeth F.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Constructing Segregation: Race Politics in the Territorial Legislature, 1890-1907
Article relates the story of the gradual construction of segregation in Oklahoma through the medium of separate-school legislation and ballot manipulation.
Date:
Autumn 2008
Creator:
Darcy, R.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"A Nomad in White Man's Jungle": An Introduction to the Works of Louis Oliver
Article analyzing the literary work of Louis Oliver, American Indian writer and poet.
Date:
Winter 2009
Creator:
Schmidtke, Carsten
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"Practically a Military School": The University of Oklahoma and World War I
Article detailing the University of Oklahoma's reaction and response to the declaration of World War I in 1917. This includes the University of Oklahoma's administration, faculty, and students' actions to support the war effort. The revamped campus included barracks and military-training facilities. A Student Army Training Corps, precursor to ROTC, was born, and numerous students and faculty entered the armed services.
Date:
Summer 2006
Creator:
Levy, David W.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"Civilization May be a Hoax": Oklahomans in the Old World, 1907-1939
This article describes the views of middle-class Oklahomans who toured Europe between the two world wars and whose travel accounts concluded that the New World--America and Oklahoma--were superior in all aspects of "civilization."
Date:
Winter 2007
Creator:
Voss, K. Dirk
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sooner State Civil Liberties in Perilous Times, 1940-41, Part 2: Oklahoma's Little Dies Committee
The second part of this two-part article examines the government reaction in 1941 that led to the Oklahoma Senate Committee on Elections and Privileges' mandated investigation of alleged Communist activity in Oklahoma colleges and universities.
Date:
Spring 2007
Creator:
Wiegand, Wayne A. & Wiegand, Shirley A.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
On the Gallows' Edge: Capital Punishment, Appeals, and Presidential Clemency in Indian Territory, 1896-1907
This article continues Von Creel's study of the administration of justice in Indian Territory courts and expands upon the application of capital punishment. Von Creel details the cases of nine individuals who were convicted of capital crimes but who escaped hanging. Their stories involve the complicated legal processes of appeal, application for presidential clemency, commutation of sentence, and post-verdict motions.
Date:
Summer 2006
Creator:
Creel, Von Russell
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Stereotypes, Lies, and Crass Humor: When Men Write About Women Homesteaders in Oklahoma Land Runs
Article examines the literature of and about the era during the opening of the Oklahoma Territory settlement (1889-1895) and shows that men who wrote about women land seekers often satirized and belittled them in order to discourage them from competing.
Date:
Autumn 2008
Creator:
Werden, Douglas
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Broken Thread: The Choctaw Spinning Association, 1937-1943
This article details the process of reinstituting the art of spinning wool among the Choctaw as part of a project led by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to increase the income of Choctaw women through traditional native craft and analyzes the program's unfortunate demise.
Date:
Winter 2008
Creator:
Petty, Christina
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
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
Earning Their Spurs in the Oil Patch: The Cinematic FBI, the Osage Murders, and the Test of the American West
This article covers the Osage Murders, a series of murders occurring in Osage county in the early 1920s where victims were members of the Osage Tribe who all held rights that entitled them to oil royalties. The murders were eventually solved and later used to promote the Federal Bureau of Investigation, even being used as the basis for multiple books and movies.
Date:
Summer 2006
Creator:
Warren, Andrew L.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Summer 2006
Notes and Documents column including an article honoring the individuals who were inducted into the annual Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2006. The honorees in April 2006 were Joe C. Jackson, Denzil D. Garrison, Alice Tyner Timmons, and Robert "Bob" F. Read, Sr.
Date:
Summer 2006
Creator:
Wilson, Linda D.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History