Women of Oklahoma, 1890-1920

Women of Oklahoma, 1890-1920

Author: Linda Williams Reese

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780806129990

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Linda Williams Reese tells of political activist Kate Barnard, who became Oklahoma's Commissioner of Charities and Corrections but fell from political grace, of Alice Robertson, who in 1920 abandoned the acceptable female endeavors of teaching and charity work to become a representative to the U.S Congress, and of Isabel Crawford, missionary to the Kiowas, who confided to her journal, "There are different kinds of hardships and those of the heart and spirit are harder to bear.".


Creating Tropical Yankees

Creating Tropical Yankees

Author: Jose-Manuel Navarro

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1317795075

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This work explores how after acquiring Puerto Rico in 1898, the United States engaged in a systematic ideological conquest of the population through social science textbooks used in the public school system.