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Birthday of the Klan: The Tulsa Outrage of 1917

Description: Article describes the events that led to the Tulsa Outrage of 1917, including the emergence of the "Knights of Liberty" a vigilante group grown from the Tulsa Council of Defense which persecuted members of labor organizations and whose actions foreshadowed later violence committed by the Ku Klux Klan.
Date: Winter 2019
Creator: Hopkins, Randy
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

For the Record, Winter 2019-20

Description: For the Record section including the minutes of the quarterly board meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on July 24, 2019 as well as the following lists: "New Members, July-August-September 2019" and "Twenty-Year Members, July-August-September 2019."
Date: Winter 2019
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Rough Riders Three

Description: Article describes the lives and participation of three "Rough Riders" in the Spanish-American War, later president Theodore Roosevelt, Frank Frantz, and Walter Cook, to illustrate how their lives began to intersect in the late 1890s.
Date: Winter 2019
Creator: Cummings, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

A Terrible Truth: The Tonkawa Massacre of 1862

Description: Article explores the history of the Tonkawa people in Texas and Oklahoma and illuminates the negative impact Union and Confederate forces caused by not honoring their treaty obligations to protect the Tonkawas from the tribes around them, who they were alienated from by allying themselves with the US government.
Date: Winter 2019
Creator: Connole, Joseph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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