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Our Place: The One-Hundred-Year-Old Family Farm

Description: This article analyzes several oral history interviews with families who own Centennial Farms and Ranches in Oklahoma. The Centennial Farm and Ranch Program began in 1989 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Land Run of 1889. With an aim to record Oklahoma's agricultural history, librarians with the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program developed the Oklahoma Centennial Farm Families oral history project in collaboration with the Oklahoma Historical Society in 2008.
Date: Autumn 2014
Creator: Finchum, Tanya D. & Nykolaiszyn, Juliana
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

D. R. Miller: A Man Who Brought the Circus to Town

Description: Article describes the life and career of D. R. Miller, successful circus owner and famous showman. Juliana Nykolaiszyn and Tanya Finchum explore the details of his upbringing, the growth of his circus, the partnerships he formed, and the difficulties he faced.
Date: Winter 2013
Creator: Nykolaiszyn, Juliana & Finchum, Tanya D.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Park Hill's Ross Cemetery

Description: Article relates the results of the survey that took place in Fall 2000 and Spring 2001 by Lois E. Wilson Albert and members of the Oklahoma Anthropological Society to thoroughly document the Ross Cemetery at Park Hill for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. The Ross Cemetery contains the remains of members of one of the most prominent Cherokee families of the nineteenth century.
Date: Spring 2013
Creator: Wilson Albert, Lois E.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"This Faithfulness Destroyed Them": The Failure of Grant's Peace Policy Among the Kiowas and Comanches

Description: Article describes the execution of American Indian policy under President Ulysses S. Grant. In his attempts to remove corruption from the Office of Indian Affairs, President Ulysses S. Grant involved Christian denominations, including the Society of Friends, in the execution of American Indian policy. The author argues that the Quaker's Peace Policy not only failed, but never had a chance of success among the Kiowas and Comanches.
Date: Summer 2015
Creator: White, Wayne A.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Rex Brinlee: The Man and His Escape

Description: This article tells the story of notorious criminal Rex Brinlee, who is best known for his multiple escapes from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. The article interweaves the details of his crimes with larger state events, including the McAlester Prison Riot.
Date: Summer 2013
Creator: Reavis, Jack Anthony
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Thurgood Marshall's "Broom Closet": The Structure of Segregation in McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents

Description: Article examines the circumstances that led up to the court case McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents and how lawyers Thurgood Marshall and Amos T. Hall fought for equal treatment of George McLaurin, an African-American student who was admitted to the University of Oklahoma College of Education in 1948, but physically separated from his classmates and made to enter his classroom through a separate door.
Date: Spring 2019
Creator: Lomazoff, Eric & Gregory, Bailie
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Development of the Historic Preservation Movement in Oklahoma, 1966-2016

Description: Article continues the story of historic preservation in Oklahoma to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. The authors discuss not only the programs administered by the Oklahoma State Historic Preservation Office to fulfill the mandates set forth in the act, but also the work of American Indian tribes and preservation organizations.
Date: Autumn 2016
Creator: Heisch, Melvena Thurman & Roberson, Glen R.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Unforgotten Trailblazer: Nancy O. Randolph Davis

Description: Article presents a biography of equal education and civil rights activist, Nancy O. Randolph Davis. In her roles as a student, a teacher, and a NAACP Youth Council Sponsor, Nancy O. Randolph Davis fought for equality for African American young people and made possible the advancement of Oklahoma's civil rights movement.
Date: Winter 2012
Creator: Pollard, Gloria J.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Missiles of Oklahoma: Southwest Oklahoma's Role in the American Cold Way Nuclear Arsenal, 1960-65

Description: Article describes Oklahoma's role in American nuclear development during the Cold War era. While also providing historical background, Landry Brewer focuses on the construction and development of twelve intercontinental ballistic missile sites in southwest Oklahoma along with the hub at Altus Air Force Base.
Date: Autumn 2017
Creator: Brewer, Landry
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

A Will of Iron: Dr. M. L. Peter and the Oklahoma City-County Health Department

Description: Article explores M. L. Peter's career in public health and contributions to the Oklahoma City community. Peter served for fifteen years as director of the Oklahoma City-County Health Department, bringing polio vaccination clinics and improved sanitation practices to the Oklahoma City Area.
Date: Winter 2016
Creator: Peter, Stephen B.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Waynoka and the Birth of Transcontinental Air Service

Description: Article describes the construction of Waynoka Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. airport and its history as a stop on the transcontinental line where passengers transferred from airplanes to railcars. Thomas A. Wikle and Dale R. Lightfoot explore its impact on the town and what became of the airport after the passenger service ended.
Date: Summer 2016
Creator: Wikle, Thomas A. & Lightfoot, Dale R.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Rise and Fall of Edwin ("Daddy") DeBarr

Description: This article uses the life of Edwin DeBarr, one of the founding faculty members of the University of Oklahoma, to show the change in social, political, and racial attitudes over time at the university, ultimately leading to the removal of DeBarr's name from the Chemistry Building.
Date: Autumn 2010
Creator: Levy, David W.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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