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"Practically a Military School": The University of Oklahoma and World War I

Description: 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.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Earning Their Spurs in the Oil Patch: The Cinematic FBI, the Osage Murders, and the Test of the American West

Description: 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.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Money Matters: The Stamp Scrip Movement in Depression-Era Oklahoma

Description: Article expanding on the previous 2004 article on Oklahoma's reaction to the depression era banking crisis of early 1933. In this article, Gatch ties the origin of the scrip movement to the writings of Yale University's professor Irving Fisher and traces the implementation of scrip schemes in nearly three dozen Oklahoma towns and explains the reasons for scrip's early success and rapid demise.
Date: Autumn 2006
Creator: Gatch, Loren
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

A Reading Room of Their Own: Library Services for African Americans in Oklahoma, 1907-1946

Description: Article discussing the struggles African American Oklahomans faced for access to public library services. The first forty years of statehood brought a few successes, and by mid-century only eleven communities provided a public library facility for the state's black citizens.
Date: Autumn 2006
Creator: Cassity, R. O. Joe, Jr.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

A Meeting of Conquerors: Art Goebel and Charles Lindbergh in Tulsa, 1927

Description: Article recounts the meeting of Art Gobel and Charles A. Lindbergh in Tulsa in September 1927. Both aviators, Goebel was known as "The Conqueror of the Pacific," while Lindbergh was "The Conqueror of the Atlantic." Their meeting and behavior toward Oklahomans revealed much about each man's character and personality and about the American practice of hero making.
Date: Spring 2007
Creator: Hedglen, Thomas
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Thrice Purchased: Acquisition and Allotment of the Citizen Potawatomi Reservation

Description: Article explores the arrival of the Potawatomi in central Oklahoma after being pushed out of their communally held Kansas reserve and into the Indian Territory, the acquisition of a new reservation, and the means used to force them to own land as individuals.
Date: Spring 2008
Creator: Kraft, Lisa
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

A Special Kind of Man: The Autobiography of Dr. Lindsey L. Long

Description: Article provides an autobiographical portrait of the life of Dr. Lindsey L. Long through exploration of his reminiscences. Ben Blackstock highlights the life and struggles of a physician in rural Oklahoma.
Date: Winter 1999
Creator: Blackstock, Ben
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Note and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 77, Number 4, Winter 1999-2000

Description: Notes and Documents section from Volume 77, Number 4, Winter 1999-2000. It includes a document honoring Parker McKenzie, who was inducted into the annual Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 1999. It also includes a document describing the contents and providing historical context for the Dorothy K. Elder Collection at the State Museum of History.
Date: Winter 1999
Creator: Blackburn, Bob L. & Winchester, Jean A.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

John G. Chapin and the Struggle for Dover

Description: Article describes the journey of John C. Chapman, the earliest resident of the town of Dover, Oklahoma, to build a community there in the late nineteenth century.
Date: Spring 1999
Creator: Lillibridge, John L.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

In the Midst of Adversity: The City, the Governor, and the FERA, Part II

Description: Article describes the struggles citizens of Oklahoma faced during the Great Depression. In the second part of a two-part article, William H. Mullins explores how the Oklahoma administration attempted to provide relief to the citizens of Oklahoma.
Date: Spring 1999
Creator: Mullins, William H.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 77, Number 2, Summer 1999

Description: Notes and Documents section from Volume 77, Number 2, Summer 1999. It includes a document honoring Rella Watts Looney, who was inducted into the annual Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 1999. It also describes the journey of the Kilgen Theater Organ being moved from WKY Radio to the Civic Center Auditorium, and eventually to the State Museum of History.
Date: Summer 1999
Creator: Blackburn, Bob L. & Harris, Rodger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 77, Number 2, Summer 1999

Description: For the Record section from Volume 77, Number 2, Summer 1999. It includes the minutes of the quarterly board meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on January 27, 1999.
Date: Summer 1999
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 77, Number 1, Spring 1999

Description: For the Record section from Volume 77, Number 1, Spring 1999. It includes the minutes of the quarterly board meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on October 28, 1998. It also includes the minutes of two special board meetings of the OHS, one held on November 12, 1998 and the other on January 6 and 7, 1999.
Date: Spring 1999
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Hopefield Mission in Osage Nation, 1823-1837

Description: Article describes the establishment and history of the Hopefield Mission, a branch of Union Mission established by Reverend William B. Montgomery, William C. Requa, and his wife. Carloyn Thomas Foreman discusses the hardships faced at the mission while trying to provide agricultural training to the Osage people.
Date: Summer 1950
Creator: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 28, Number 2, Summer 1950

Description: Notes and Documents section for Volume 28, Number 2, Summer 1950. It includes announcements about the publication of historical materials, artifacts, the creation of memorials, dedications, and a correction for the article titled Women Teachers of Oklahoma 1820-1860 in the Chronicles Volume 27, Number 1, page 19.
Date: Summer 1950
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Itemized List of the Whipple Collection

Description: Article provides an itemized list of the General Amiel Weeks Whipple Collection, which includes journals, drawings, paintings, maps, manuscripts, pamphlets, books and pages, and lithographs related to the land surveys the man participated in.
Date: Autumn 1950
Creator: Evans, Charles
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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