Oklahoma City | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
Oklahoma City sprang into existence on April 22, 1889, when approximately fifty thousand participants of the Land Run of 1889 claimed town lots and quarter sections in the area known …
Oklahoma City Bombing | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History …
On April 19, 1995, at 9:02 a.m. a forty-eight-hundred-pound ammonium nitrate–fuel oil bomb exploded in a Ryder truck parked at the north entrance of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal …
The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture includes more than 2,600 articles about the people, places, and events that shape our history.
The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
Oklahoma City's urban renewal program was the most extensive in the state, and by the early 1980s the city had cleared hundreds of structures in three areas. These were downtown, the …
The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
The Oklahoma Aviation Story (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Heritage Association, 2004). The Tulsa Historic Preservation Plan (Tulsa, Okla.: Tulsa Preservation Commission, 1992). "Tulsa," …
The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
During the primary runoff in August 2018 Stitt defeated Mick Cornett, former mayor of Oklahoma City. In the November 2018 general election Oklahoma voters selected Republican Stitt …
Timeline - Oklahoma Historical Society
Oct 19, 2021 · November 5, 1912 – Citizens vote to retain Oklahoma’s capital in Oklahoma City. July 8, 1914 – Edward P. Boyd is chosen as superintendent of construction for the capitol …
The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
The first state flag, designed by Ruth D. Clement of Oklahoma City, comprised a red field with a white, five-pointed star edged in blue and centered in the field. The number “46,” set in center …
The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
Jan 15, 2010 · In 1967 the National Cowboy Hall of Fame (now National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum) in Oklahoma City acquired Fraser's studio collection. In 1968 Dean Krakel, …
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Gateway is an online repository of Oklahoma history. You may browse through hundreds of thousands of newspaper pages dating from the 1840s to the 1920s.