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Love Gifts for the Bishop: James J. Stewart v. Bishop W. Angie Smith, Part 1

Description: Article discussing the events that led to a church investigating committee when, James J. Stewart, an Albuquerque minister, filed charges against Methodist bishop W. Angie Smith for what he considered abuse of episcopal power. It also discusses the proceedings of the meeting itself and the aftermath.
Date: Spring 2000
Creator: Martin, A. W., Jr.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Fear of "Negro Domination": The Rise of Segregation and Disfranchisement in Oklahoma

Description: This article addresses the issue of the rise of segregation and disfranchisement in the frontier West. It looks closely at the sociopolitical climate in Oklahoma to answer important questions about the opportunities blacks found in the state and how white politicians became emboldened by the fear of "Negro domination."
Date: Spring 2000
Creator: Wickett, Murray R.
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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

Inside the School Yard Gate: "Alfalfa Bill" Murray and Education in Oklahoma

Description: Article describes the life and political career of William "Alfalfa Bill" Murray and his efforts to promote free access to education and textbooks in the Oklahoma public school system. Karen McKellips illuminates the contrast between his progressive political and economic views on reform and his support of racial segregation.
Date: Winter 2000
Creator: McKellips, Karen
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

H. L. Mencken and the "Oklahoma Style" of Literature

Description: Article delineates the fascination H. L. Mencken, influential social critic, journalist, and editor, had with Oklahoma-centered literature and poetry. Lawrence R. Rodgers discusses the works of several writers the critic openly supported. Many of these writers had an affiliation with the University of Oklahoma.
Date: Winter 2000
Creator: Rodgers, Lawrence R.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"The Panther's Scream is Often Heard": Cherokee Women in Indian Territory during the Civil War

Description: The Civil War and intertribal factionalism in the Cherokee Nation left one-third of women as widows and one-fourth of the children as orphans by 1863. This article is a careful examination of the lives of many Cherokee women in which the author concludes that while the crisis may have empowered women, it also led to a crisis of identity for elite women.
Date: Spring 2000
Creator: Johnston, Carolyn Ross
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Western Oklahoma's Regiment: The 179th Infantry

Description: Article discusses the history and formation of Western Oklahoma's 179th Infantry, including details about the men who formed the regiment and their participation in the Korean War. Penn V. Rabb, Jr. also addresses some of the challenges the regiment faced: obtaining supplies to equip themselves, responding to both state and national emergencies, and organizational changes.
Date: Summer 2000
Creator: Rabb, Penn V., Jr.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Fort Sill, the Chiricahua Apaches, and the Government's Promise of Permanent Residence

Description: The Chiricahua Apaches spent nineteen years (1894-1913) as prisoners of war at Fort Sill in southwestern Oklahoma believing they had been promised permanent residency. This article addresses the rationale behind the government's decision to remove the Apaches from Fort Sill and explores the record to show why the Apaches and others believed they had been promised permanent residency there.
Date: Spring 2000
Creator: Haes, Brenda L.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Tams Bixby: Doing Government Business in the Gilded Age

Description: Article takes a close look at the troubled tenure of Tams Bixby, who had the job of distributing millions of dollars of tribal property as part of the Dawes Commission. The task of enrolling and allotting land to members of the Five Civilized Tribes was a process marked by controversy and charges of corruption.
Date: Winter 2000
Creator: Carter, Kent
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Park Hill Mission: Letters from a Missionary Family

Description: Article describes the lives of Reverend Joseph Leiper, wife Fanny Leiper, and Joseph's aunt Margeret McCarrell in their lives as Presbyterian missionaries running the Park Hill Mission, which functioned as both a church and a school for Cherokee residents of the area. Krisitna L. Southwell also describes the founding of the McCarrell Institute, one of the only schools for African American children in the area at the time.
Date: Summer 2000
Creator: Southwell, Kristina L.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

A Place of Coming Together: The Historic Jacobson House

Description: Article documents the life of Oscar Jacobson, an artist and world art historian who ran the School of Art at the University of Oklahoma. He was the first art authority to recognize Native American painting as fine art and introduced it to the international market. The article also details the efforts of the Jacobson House Committee in the 1980s to restore and preserve the house as a Native American Arts Center.
Date: Winter 2000
Creator: Whitney, Carol
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Removal of the Southeastern Indians: Historians Respond to the 1960s and the Trail of Tears

Description: Article analyzes the work of several historians from the 1960s and 1970s. The politics and culture of the 1960s and 1970s played a role in reshaping popular conceptions of Indian America as scholars began to re-investigate Indian-white relations. This article analyzes how that time period affected the interpretations of the removal of the southeastern Indians.
Date: Autumn 2000
Creator: Kelleher, Michael
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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