Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 79, Number 1, Spring 2001
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Oklahoma Republican: Dennis Thomas Flynn and His Letters to William Howard Taft (Article)
Article describes the life and career of Oklahoma's first Republican national committeeman, Dennis T. Flynn, through examination of his friendship and correspondence with President William Howard Taft. Leonard C. Schlup offers recognition of the Oklahoma City lawyer, congressman, and company director as a person as well as a politician.
Oklahoma Republican: Dennis Thomas Flynn and His Letters to William Howard Taft - ark:/67531/metadc2016827
"Almost Hopeless in the Wake of the Storm": The 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic in Oklahoma (Article)
Article examines the impact of the Spanish flu epidemic on Oklahomans during 1918-1919. Nigel Anthony Sellars discusses the spread of the epidemic on a detailed level, identifying the medical institutions and professionals who sought to combat the epidemic as it spread from one Oklahoma city to another.
"Almost Hopeless in the Wake of the Storm": The 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic in Oklahoma - ark:/67531/metadc2016825
Humanitarian Rhetoric and Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Policy (Article)
Article discusses the rhetoric used by Andrew Jackson during his time as United States president in his support of the removal of the Five Tribes from the southeastern United States. Henry E. Fritz argues that Jackson's rhetoric reveals he was an ethnocentric nationalist who also felt he had a moral obligation to the Tribes, despite the fact that their well-being was not his foremost concern.
Humanitarian Rhetoric and Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Policy - ark:/67531/metadc2016826
Major Andrew Drumm: Cowman, Businessman, and Visionary (Article)
Article describes the upbringing, travels, and successes of Andrew Drumm, the founder and owner of the U Ranch in the Cherokee Outlet. He pursued various interests in the mining, cattle, and banking industries, while also practicing philanthropy in his creation of the Drumm Institute for orphaned youths and donating to World War I emergency and medical funds.
Major Andrew Drumm: Cowman, Businessman, and Visionary - ark:/67531/metadc2016824
Will Rogers Field: The Life and Death of a World War II Airbase (Article)
Article tells the story of the transformation of the Oklahoma City municipal airport into the airbase that would become the largest light bomber training base in the country, Will Rogers Field. Keith Tolman discusses the decline of the base with the end of World War II and what remains of its impact.
Will Rogers Field: The Life and Death of a World War II Airbase - ark:/67531/metadc2016823
For the Record, Spring 2001 (Article)
For the Record section including minutes of the regular quarterly board meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on October 25, 2000.
For the Record, Spring 2001 - ark:/67531/metadc2016828
Notes and Documents, Spring 2001 (Article)
Notes and Documents column including a document about the writer Glenn Shirley, who was inducted into the annual Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2001, and a list of his books and articles. It also includes "Into the West: Oklahoma Remembered," an essay that situates Oklahoma in the author's view and experience of the American West and includes references to the titular book.
Notes and Documents, Spring 2001 - ark:/67531/metadc2016829
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Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 79, Number 1, Spring 2001, periodical, Spring 2001; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1761009/: accessed May 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.