In this episode, historian Lee Roy Chapman lets us ride shotgun on a whirlwind tour through painter-poet Joe Brainard's Tulsa

In this episode of Public Secrets, historians Lee Roy Chapman and J. Kavin Ross uncover a forgotten Creek Freedmen cemetery in South Tulsa.

In this episode of Public Secrets, historian Lee Roy Chapman delves into the infamous Sex Pistols show at Tulsa's Cain's Ballroom in 1978.

In this episode, we explore The White Dove Review–a short-lived but highly influential poetry magazine published in Tulsa, Oklahoma, from 1959 to 1960 by three high school students: Ron Padgett, Joe Brainard, and Dick Gallup.

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by Lee Roy Chapman Photo by the Author. A similar exterior shot of this house is featured in Larry Clark's 1971 photobook Tulsa . Located...

By all accounts, fallen Tulsa Police Commissioner Secretary Harry Harrison Aurandt's burial at Rose Hill Cemetery was quite a spectacle. An unannounced group of 12 Klansmen in full ceremonial regalia approached the funeral tent from the south carrying a large flaming cross of red roses to pay tribute to Aurandt.

Dr. S.G. Kennedy was furious. He had put his trust and money in a young man, who seemed to be making a name for himself in Tulsa, a former Wichita newspaper reporter who had once served as a private secretary to Congressman Bird McGuire of Oklahoma. Myron Boyle was the editor of the Indian Republican, one of Tulsa’s earliest weekly newspapers, which had been founded in 1891.

No one took credit for the bomb threat that January night. Though no device was found in the women’s restroom of Cain’s Ballroom, a bomb of a different sort was about to drop in Tulsa.

When I first read Joe Brainard, I was 14 and had just started writing poetry. I did not know what made Tulsa special (yet)...

Atkins belonged to Coweta Town, an ancient tribal town that was relocated to Indian Territory when he was a young child.

In January 1881, a new student named Minnie Atkins arrived at Pennsylvania's Carlisle Indian Industrial School.

I was not expecting to find lost treasure as I shifted through a pile of paperwork. But there was one thing that caught my eye: a series of

By Randy Hopkins Courtesy of Tulsa Booker T. Washington High School. In the fall of 1921, students began returning to Tulsa, Oklahoma's...

Tommy was a Muscogee boy whose land was worth many millions of dollars in 1914. The only problem was that he may have never existed.

The FBI had cause to be concerned. Hargis’ tirades mirrored those from any number of early 20th century Ku Klux Klan pamphlets.

The seventeen men were terrified, and with good reason. They stood shivering in the November midnight air...

In September of 1921, a group of influential Tulsans formed the Tulsa Association of Pioneers to commemorate the founders of their city.

Once the Centennial was over and a single body with bullet holes was discovered in Oaklawn in late June 2021, things changed.

Pandemonium was loosed when the body finally dropped. The guards relaxed their grip and a mad dash ensued.