Pioneer life in Oklahoma wasn't easy, but for those brave souls who ventured out into the wild lands of untamed Oklahoma it was their dream. They saw this new state as a ray of light, a chance to own a piece of the American Dream; a home and land of...
On April 19, 1995, the Albert P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was rocked by a truck bomb. The blast killed 168 people and injured more than 500.
Sarah and Andy Justice from Tulsa, Oklahoma, were one of those happy couples who wanted to have kids more than anything else in the world. However, after years of trying to get pregnant they realized that adoption was their only chance. They went through the long adoption process and were finally given the opportunity to have children. The rest of their emotional and touching story seems more like a movie than real life.What happened after the Justices came home with their children and how did their lives change overnight? Continue reading to find out.
Star Shirley Jones to attend the fifth annual event; William Friedkin, Kim Novak, Ryan O'Neal and Albert Maysles also expected at screenings of their classic films.
Note: The following is a guest post by Tanya Finchum and Juliana Nykolaiszyn, creators of the Occupational Folklife Project collection The “Big Top” Show Goes On: An Oral History of Occupations Inside and Outside the Canvas Circus Tent. All photos in this post are part of collection, and can be found, often at higher resoultions, by visiting …
The new take on the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic earned raves Off Broadway.
A photo of Floyd Wilson who was the son of Ida Frances Bailey Whitmire and Albert Ross Wilson. He was born 4 May 1906 and died 18 February 1907.
American photographer. From 1914 to 1917 she attended the New York Training School for Teachers and there decided to become a photographer, partly influenced by visits to the photographer Arnold Genthe. From 1917 to 1918 she attended a photography course run by Clarence H. White at Columbia Universi
Garth Brooks once threw the javelin at Oklahoma State University.
The House of Representatives today approved a pro-life bill that bans abortions from after 20-weeks of pregnancy up to the day of birth. The vote for the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act broke down on mostly partisan lines with Republicans supporting the ban on late-term abortions and Democrats opposing it. The House approved the […]
