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The African Lion: George Napier Perkins, Lawyer, Politician, Editor

Description: Article describes the life and career of George Napier Perkins, a lawyer, politician, and newspaper editor who advocated black quality in early territorial Oklahoma. Nudie E. Williams elaborates on his beliefs that Oklahoma held potential for a better future for black citizens of the U.S.
Date: Winter 1992
Creator: Williams, Nudie E.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Agriculture in the Oklahoma Panhandle 1898-1942

Description: Article describes the history of agricultural activity in the Oklahoma Panhandle and some of the people groups that settled there. W David Baird includes details about historic buildings that contributed to agricultural development, such as granaries, barns, and ranches.
Date: Summer 1994
Creator: Baird, W. David
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Alice Lee Elliott Memorial Academy: A School for Choctaw Freedmen

Description: Article explores the history of Oak Hill Industrial Academy (also known as Alice Lee Elliott Memorial Academy) one of the only schools that provided education to Choctaw freedmen and other black citizens in the area of Valliant, Oklahoma. Joy McDougal Smith traces the history of the school, from its establishment to closing, and includes details about the people who taught and studied there.
Date: Autumn 1994
Creator: Smith, McDougal Joy
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Alice's Restaurant: Expanding a Woman's Sphere

Description: Article describes the life and career of Alice Mary Robertson, the second woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and the first congresswoman of Oklahoma. Maitreyi Mazumdar discusses Roberts own ideology and beliefs, which included the idea of women belonging in the home, and how it impacted her political stance.
Date: Autumn 1992
Creator: Mazumdar, Maitreyi
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

All that Glitters, Assaying S. H. Logan's "Trip to the Gold Fields"

Description: Article provides a thorough examination of S.H. Logan's "Trip to the Gold Fields," an account allegedly compiled from the writings of an emigrant who had joined Captain Randolph B. Marcy on a gold-seeking expedition to California, which was published in the Arkansas Gazette in 1941. Since it has been cited as a primary source, Stephen H. Dew exposes certain areas of the account that may be fabricated in comparison to more factual and evidentiary sources.
Date: Autumn 1993
Creator: Dew, Stephen H.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"Almost Hopeless in the Wake of the Storm": The 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic in Oklahoma

Description: 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.
Date: Spring 2001
Creator: Sellars, Nigel Anthony
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"America, Love It or Leave It": Some Native American Initiatives to Move to Mexico, 1890-1940

Description: Article describes the emigration to Mexico initiative some Native American tribes in Oklahoma considered between 1890 and 1940. Steven Crum also describes the national government's response to these efforts and references the similarity of the 1960s phrase coined in the article's title.
Date: Winter 2001
Creator: Crum, Steven J.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Amongst the Damp: The Dangerous Profession of Coal Mining in Oklahoma, 1870-1935

Description: Article explores the dangerous coal mining profession in Oklahoma from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century. Steve Sewell provides details about major mining accidents, as well as the terminology miners used to describe the "damps," or noxious gases that threatened their safety.
Date: Spring 1992
Creator: Sewell, Steven L.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Anatomy of an Oklahoma Lynching: Bryan County, August 12-13, 1911

Description: Article provides details surrounding the lynching of John Lee, a black man who attacked and killed a woman alone with her children near Durant, Oklahoma in 1911. Lowell Blaisdell describes the history of racial violence in the area, including other lynching incidents, and the circulation of rumors and paranoia that went hand-in-hand with the attitudes of the era.
Date: Autumn 2001
Creator: Blaisdell, Lowell L.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"And The Skies Are Not Cloudy All Day": Drought and the Cherokee Outlet Land Run

Description: This article details the difficulties that settlers of the Cherokee Outlet faced and how they coped with adverse conditions. Many environmental and economic factors contributed to their success or failure, including a major drought on the Southern Plains that coincided with the opening of the Cherokee Outlet in 1893.
Date: Winter 2003
Creator: Sweeney, Kevin Z.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"An anxiety to do right": The Life of Judge John Hazelton Cotteral, 1864-1933

Description: Article provides a portrait of John H. Cotteral, the first federal judge for the Western District of Oklahoma and the first Oklahoman to occupy the bench of the circuit court of appeals. The article explores both the man and the legal opinions he wrote throughout his forty-year career.
Date: Autumn 2000
Creator: Leitch, Kevin C.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"Any Woman That Could Ride a Horse Could Fly": Dorothy K. Pressler Morgan, 1930s Oklahoma Aviatrix

Description: Article describes the role of Dorothy Pressler Morgan in aviation history. In 1930 Dorothy Pressler Morgan became the second female pilot licensed in Oklahoma by the U.S. Department of Commerce. She was also known as Oklahoma City's best stunt pilot, an altitude-record setter, and the nation's first female airport manager.
Date: Spring 2006
Creator: Fugate, Tally D.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"The Best Our Country Has To Offer": Peace Corps Training at the University of Oklahoma

Description: Article describes the Peace Corps training program in the 1960s-80s at the University of Oklahoma, which included language, technical, and cultural training. Experienced international trainer Richard H. Hancock relates stories from his own travels as well as those gained while working with the recruits at OU.
Date: Autumn 2002
Creator: Hancock, Richard H.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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