Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 78, Number 4, Winter 2000-01
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Inside the School Yard Gate: "Alfalfa Bill" Murray and Education in Oklahoma (Article)
Article describes the life and political career of William "Alfalfa Bill" Murray and his efforts to promote free access to education and textbooks in the Oklahoma public school system. Karen McKellips illuminates the contrast between his progressive political and economic views on reform and his support of racial segregation.
Inside the School Yard Gate: "Alfalfa Bill" Murray and Education in Oklahoma - ark:/67531/metadc2016820
H. L. Mencken and the "Oklahoma Style" of Literature (Article)
Article delineates the fascination H. L. Mencken, influential social critic, journalist, and editor, had with Oklahoma-centered literature and poetry. Lawrence R. Rodgers discusses the works of several writers the critic openly supported. Many of these writers had an affiliation with the University of Oklahoma.
H. L. Mencken and the "Oklahoma Style" of Literature - ark:/67531/metadc2016819
Tams Bixby: Doing Government Business in the Gilded Age (Article)
Article takes a close look at the troubled tenure of Tams Bixby, who had the job of distributing millions of dollars of tribal property as part of the Dawes Commission. The task of enrolling and allotting land to members of the Five Civilized Tribes was a process marked by controversy and charges of corruption.
Tams Bixby: Doing Government Business in the Gilded Age - ark:/67531/metadc2016817
A Place of Coming Together: The Historic Jacobson House (Article)
Article documents the life of Oscar Jacobson, an artist and world art historian who ran the School of Art at the University of Oklahoma. He was the first art authority to recognize Native American painting as fine art and introduced it to the international market. The article also details the efforts of the Jacobson House Committee in the 1980s to restore and preserve the house as a Native American Arts Center.
A Place of Coming Together: The Historic Jacobson House - ark:/67531/metadc2016818
For Society's Sake: The Wichita Mountains, Wildlife, and Identity in Oklahoma's Early Environmental History (Article)
Article provides an account of the American mindset in the early twentieth century and how human interests dictated the state's early environmental history and the creation of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Oklahoma.
For Society's Sake: The Wichita Mountains, Wildlife, and Identity in Oklahoma's Early Environmental History - ark:/67531/metadc2016816
For the Record, Winter 2000-01 (Article)
For the Record section including the minutes of the Quarterly Board Meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on July 26, 2000.
For the Record, Winter 2000-01 - ark:/67531/metadc2016821
Notes and Documents, Winter 2000-01 (Article)
Notes and Documents column including a document honoring Mildred Imach Cleghorn, who was inducted into the annual Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2000. It describes her upbringing, education, community involvement, and the cultural heritage project she began.
Notes and Documents, Winter 2000-01 - ark:/67531/metadc2016822
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Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 78, Number 4, Winter 2000-01, periodical, Winter 2000; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1725777/: accessed May 20, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.