Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 79, Number 2, Summer 2001
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Emperor Haile Selassie in Stillwater: The First Visit to Oklahoma by a Reigning Foreign Head of State (Article)
Article discusses Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia's visit to Oklahoma A&M College in 1954. This event followed the collaborative efforts between the country's leadership and Oklahoma A&M to found the Jimma Agricultural Technical School and the Imperial Ethiopian College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts in Ethiopia. Theodore M. Vestal describes the visit, the life of the Ethiopian emperor, and the history of Ethiopia in the following years.
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The Ultimate Patriots?: Oklahoma Women of the Ku Klux Klan (Article)
Article describes the activities and formation of the all-female branch of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, the Women of the Ku Klux Klan. Suzzane H. Schrems describes the ritualistic appeal of the organization to ultraconservative women of this time period and the eventual decline of the Oklahoma WKKK by 1928.
The Ultimate Patriots?: Oklahoma Women of the Ku Klux Klan - ark:/67531/metadc2016832
There is No Place like The Home: A Brief History of the Tulsa Boys' Home (Article)
Article provides historical context for the creation of the Tulsa Boys' Home in 1918 for troubled and orphaned boys. Michael Lail describes the institutions that founded the home, namely the Tulsa Rotary Club and the First Presbyterian Church, and the growth and movement of The Home itself over the years.
There is No Place like The Home: A Brief History of the Tulsa Boys' Home - ark:/67531/metadc2016834
History Underfoot: The Search for Physical Evidence of the 1868 Attack on Black Kettle's Village (Article)
Article chronicles the four-pronged attack on Cheyenne Peace Chief Black Kettle's village on the Washita River in 1868 that would later become the Washita Battlefield National Historic Site. William B. Lees, Douglas D. Scott, and C. Vance Haynes provide further evidence from surveys conducted at the scene to interpret the event in the form of archaeological/geological findings and recovered artifacts.
History Underfoot: The Search for Physical Evidence of the 1868 Attack on Black Kettle's Village - ark:/67531/metadc2016831
For the Record, Summer 2001 (Article)
For the Record section including the minutes of the Quarterly Board Meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on January 24, 2001.
For the Record, Summer 2001 - ark:/67531/metadc2016835
Notes and Documents, Summer 2001 (Article)
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.
Notes and Documents, Summer 2001 - ark:/67531/metadc2016836
The Creek Draft Rebellion of 1918: Wartime Hysteria and Indian-Baiting in WWI Oklahoma (Article)
Article depicts the events following the "Creek Draft Rebellion of 1918" and subsequent long and costly investigation into the leader of the demonstration, Ellen Perryman. Thomas A. Britten demonstrates the public hysteria perpetrated by the press and stereotypical negative image of Native Americans that was present in WWI Oklahoma.
The Creek Draft Rebellion of 1918: Wartime Hysteria and Indian-Baiting in WWI Oklahoma - ark:/67531/metadc2016833
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Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 79, Number 2, Summer 2001, periodical, Summer 2001; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1761010/: accessed May 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.