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Oklahoma Republican: Dennis Thomas Flynn and His Letters to William Howard Taft

Description: Article describes the life and career of Oklahoma's first Republican national committeeman, Dennis T. Flynn, through examination of his friendship and correspondence with President William Howard Taft. Leonard C. Schlup offers recognition of the Oklahoma City lawyer, congressman, and company director as a person as well as a politician.
Date: Spring 2001
Creator: Schlup, Leonard C.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Emperor Haile Selassie in Stillwater: The First Visit to Oklahoma by a Reigning Foreign Head of State

Description: 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.
Date: Summer 2001
Creator: Vestal, Theodore M.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Cultural Conservation and Revival: The Caddo and Hasinai Post-Removal Era, 1860-1902

Description: Article discusses the post-removal period of 1860-1902 for the Caddo and Hasinai people of the Southern Plains: the difficulties they faced, prominent leaders of the tribes, cultural traditions, and the ways they found to keep their communities intact.
Date: Autumn 2001
Creator: Meredith, Howard L.
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
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.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Humanitarian Rhetoric and Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Policy

Description: Article discusses the rhetoric used by Andrew Jackson during his time as United States president in his support of the removal of the Five Tribes from the southeastern United States. Henry E. Fritz argues that Jackson's rhetoric reveals he was an ethnocentric nationalist who also felt he had a moral obligation to the Tribes, despite the fact that their well-being was not his foremost concern.
Date: Spring 2001
Creator: Fritz, Henry E.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Major Andrew Drumm: Cowman, Businessman, and Visionary

Description: Article describes the upbringing, travels, and successes of Andrew Drumm, the founder and owner of the U Ranch in the Cherokee Outlet. He pursued various interests in the mining, cattle, and banking industries, while also practicing philanthropy in his creation of the Drumm Institute for orphaned youths and donating to World War I emergency and medical funds.
Date: Spring 2001
Creator: Haas, Bonnie & Bender, Joyce J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Ultimate Patriots?: Oklahoma Women of the Ku Klux Klan

Description: 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.
Date: Summer 2001
Creator: Schrems, Suzanne H.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

There is No Place like The Home: A Brief History of the Tulsa Boys' Home

Description: 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.
Date: Summer 2001
Creator: Lail, Michael
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Will Rogers Field: The Life and Death of a World War II Airbase

Description: Article tells the story of the transformation of the Oklahoma City municipal airport into the airbase that would become the largest light bomber training base in the country, Will Rogers Field. Keith Tolman discusses the decline of the base with the end of World War II and what remains of its impact.
Date: Spring 2001
Creator: Tolman, Keith
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

From Lee to Reba and Beyond: Oklahoma Women in American Popular Music

Description: Article covers Oklahoma's musical heritage, highlighting prominent Oklahoma women in the field of music and creating a profile of their backgrounds and contributions. These women display a diversity in musical skills as well as birthplace.
Date: Autumn 2001
Creator: Carney, George O.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Reminiscences of a Redleg: An Oklahoma Artilleryman in the Korean War

Description: Article describes the experiences of the author, Denzil D. Garrison, during his service in the Forty-fifth Infantry Division during the Korean War. Garrison provides historical context and also recounts personal stories, which vary from humorous to death-defying.
Date: Winter 2001
Creator: Garrison, Denzil D.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Celebrating the Library Spirit: A Look Back at the Carnegie Libraries in Oklahoma

Description: Article describes the construction of twenty-four libraries in Oklahoma funded by Andrew Carnegie in the early 1900s. Tanya D. Finchum and G. Allen Finchum provide a detailed look at these libraries and their continuing contribution.
Date: Winter 2001
Creator: Finchum, Tanya D. & Finchum, G. Allen
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Cherokee Treaty Party Moves West: The Bell-Deas Overland Journey, 1838-1839

Description: Article discusses Cherokee response to the removal treaties in the form of the main anti-treaty faction led by John Ross and a minority party lead by John Adair Bell in support of the treaty. Wayne Dell Gibson reconstructs the westward journey of the latter group using records created by their accompanying military officer, Lt. Edward Deas.
Date: Autumn 2001
Creator: Gibson, Wayne Dell
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

History Underfoot: The Search for Physical Evidence of the 1868 Attack on Black Kettle's Village

Description: 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.
Date: Summer 2001
Creator: Lees, William B.; Scott, Douglas D. & Haynes, C. Vance
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Life of Littleton Horace Davis: Pistol Packin' Preacher and Railroad Man

Description: Article covers the life of minister, farmer, rail car inspector, and community leader L. H. Davis. Frank W. Davis relates the contributions his grandfather made, including building the first two-story house in Francis, Oklahoma, the founding of the Francis Methodist Episcopal Church, and acquiring a reputation as a fearless man even during the dangerous railroad strikes of 1922.
Date: Winter 2001
Creator: Davis, Frank W.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 79, Number 3, Fall 2001

Description: For the Record section for Volume 79, Number 3, Fall 2001. It includes the minutes of the Quarterly Board Meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on April 19-20, 2001, as well as the minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Membership held by the Oklahoma Historical Society on April 20, 2001.
Date: Autumn 2001
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 79, Number 1, Spring 2001

Description: For the Record section for Volume 79, Number 1, Spring 2001. It includes minutes of the regular quarterly board meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on October 25, 2000.
Date: Spring 2001
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 79, Number 2, Summer 2001

Description: Notes and Documents section for Volume 79, Number 2, Summer 2001. It includes 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.
Date: Summer 2001
Creator: Armstrong, Connie G.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 79, Number 4, Winter 2001-02

Description: Notes and Documents section for Volume 79, Number 4, Winter 2001-02. It includes a document honoring Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., who was inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2001. It also includes a document about a letter Woodie Guthrie wrote to his first niece, Mary Ann Guthrie, which was donated and included.
Date: Winter 2001
Creator: Armstrong, Connie G. & Blochowiak, Mary Ann
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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