Explore digitized manuscripts and photographs from the Western History Collections for research. The digital collections include oral history interviews, Native American manuscripts, OU history, and much more.

The WHC Library has extensive holdings of scholarly journals in the field of western history, as well as a complete set of Reports and Bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and a collection of contemporary Native American newspapers.

2 天之前 · Its purpose is to enhance the University Libraries general collection on the history of the American West; to support the research and teaching programs of the University of Oklahoma; and to provide opportunities for research through the acquisition, preservation, and access of materials relating to the development of the Trans-Mississippi West ...

Graduate fellows will evenly divide their time between using WHC materials to advance their dissertation or thesis research, and working on assigned WHC projects that will provide practical experience in archival science, librarianship, or information science (archival processing, collection digitization, etc.).

FULL FINDING AID (PDF) "The Indian-Pioneer Papers oral history collection spans from 1861 to 1936. It includes typescripts of interviews conducted during the 1930s by government workers with thousands of Oklahomans regarding the settlement of Oklahoma and Indian territories, as well as the condition and conduct of life there.

Letters, reports, publications, and manuscripts reflecting the history of Oklahoma and of its American Indian tribes and nations, including correspondence (1813–1839) from U.S. government officials concerning policy toward the Indians, especially in regard to the Indian removal, and correspondence (1862) from Confederate Army officer Albert Pike...

Cherokee Nation Papers Collection. WHC M943. Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries, Norman, Oklahoma. Copy to clipboard

2023年8月21日 · The Western History Collections at the University of Oklahoma Libraries is undergoing a professional preservation treatment for resources it houses. Some resources may be unavailable during this process, which is scheduled through the rest of 2023 and possibly into the beginning of 2024.

2025年2月20日 · Online access to WHC manuscript collection finding aids. Western History Collections (OU) - Photographic Archives The Photographic Archives, with holdings of over 2 million prints and negatives has an emphasis on the …

2012年4月24日 · The Indian-Pioneer Papers oral history collection spans from 1861 to 1936. It includes typescripts of interviews conducted during the 1930s by government workers with thousands of Oklahomans regarding the settlement of Oklahoma and Indian territories, as well as the condition and conduct of life there.