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A Life on Fire

A Life on Fire

Oklahoma's Kate Barnard

by Connie Cronley

In A Life on Fire, Connie Cronley tells the story of Catherine Ann “Kate” Barnard (1875–1930), a fiery political reformer and the first woman elected to state office in Oklahoma, as commissioner of charities and corrections in 1907—almost fifteen years before women won the right to vote in the United States.

Prairie Republic

Prairie Republic

The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879–1889

by Jon K. Lauck

Territorial politics in the late-nineteenth-century West is typically viewed as a closed-door game of unprincipled opportunism or is caricatured, as in the classic film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, as a drunken exercise in bombast and rascality. Now Jon K. Lauck examines anew the values we like to think were at work during the founding of our western states. Taking Dakota Territory as a laboratory for examining a formative stage of western politics, Lauck finds that settlers from New England and the Midwest brought democratic practices and republican values to the northern plains and invoked them as guiding principles in the drive for South Dakota statehood.

The Best Courts Money Could Buy

The Best Courts Money Could Buy

Reform of the Oklahoma Judiciary, 1956–1967

by Lee Card

On one level,The Best Courts Money Could Buy is a compelling story of true crime and punishment set in the capitol of an agricultural, oil-producing, conservative state. But on a deeper level, the book is a cautionary tale of political corruption—and the politics of restoring integrity, accountability, and honor to a broken system. 
 

Safeguarding Federalism

Safeguarding Federalism

How States Protect Their Interests in National Policymaking

by John D. Nugent

The checks and balances built into the U.S. Constitution are designed to decentralize and thus limit the powers of government. This system works both horizontally—among the executive, legislative,...

Progressive Oklahoma

Progressive Oklahoma

The Making of a New Kind of State

by Danney Goble

Progressive Oklahoma traces Oklahoma’s rapid evolution from pioneer territory to statehood under a model Progressive constitution.  Author Danney Goble reasons that the Progressive movement grew as a reaction to an exaggerated species of Gilded Age social values—the notion that an expanding marketplace and unfettered individualism would properly regulate progress.

Alternative Oklahoma

Alternative Oklahoma

Contrarian Views of the Sooner State

Edited by Davis D. Joyce

Foreword by Fred L. Harris

Alternative Oklahoma urges an honest alternative exploration of the state’s diverse past. It’s an Oklahoma history that takes into account the overlooked and the left behind and contributes to a more open political dialogue in a state too often dismissed as unquestionably “red.”

Indian Territory and the United States, 1866–1906

Indian Territory and the United States, 1866–1906

Courts, Government, and the Movement for Oklahoma Statehood

by Jeffrey Burton

This innovative reappraisal of federal courts in Indian Territory shows how the United States Congress used judicial reform to suppress the Five Tribes’ governments and clear the way for Oklahoma...

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